CONQUISTADORS. SET 2

Conquistadors (Spanish Conquistadores) is a common name used today for Spanish, less often Portuguese soldiers, explorers and explorers who made conquests (Spanish conquista) in the area of mainly South and Central America. Conquistadors descended primarily from the minor, less often middle, Spanish nobility, especially from the western and southern parts of the peninsula. Iberian. The most common logistic base for the conquistadors' expeditions were the islands in the Caribbean Sea, especially Cuba and Hispaniola. The conquistadors who went down in history in the most significant way were Hernan Cortes, who conquered the entire Aztec empire in 1519-1521, and Francisco Pizzaro, who in 1531-1533 subjugated and subjugated the Inca empire. If we were to look for a common denominator for the famous conquistadors, such as Cortes, Pizarro, but also Vasco De Balboy (conquerors of Panama) or Pedro de Valdivii (conquerors of Chile), one could indicate such features as insane courage, considerable military skills, enormous ambition, greed, greed and often incredible brutality. It is worth adding that virtually all the successes of the conquistadors over the indigenous peoples were based on better arming their troops and often better organization.