Spanish Conquests of Inca and Aztec Empires Essay

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Spanish Conquests of Inca and Aztec Empires

The Spaniard's conquest of Inca and Aztec Empires are two of the most important chapters regarding the history of colonization in Americas. After Christopher Columbus had discovered America in 1492, he was able to convince the European traders to see America as a land of great opportunity. Even though there were other European countries like France, England and Italy who were setting up colonies in the new world, Spaniards were initially the most successful of them all and the reason of it was Spanish was already able to gain of Control of Cuba which served as its base from where military activities were handled something which was not enjoyed by the colonies set in North Section of Americas where Dutch, French, Italian and English were continuously fighting to save established colonies from each other.

The Cuban governor Diego Velazquez de Cuellar, sent an expedition to explore three ships to explore the Yucatan Peninsula under the leadership of Hernandez de Cordoba. This expedition was unsuccessful as the Spaniards who had conquered Cuba were not successful and then the governor Cuellar sent another expedition which indeed was quite successful in its expedition of Yucatan Peninsula. There were skirmishes at first with the locals but soon the Spaniards change their policy of total annihilation towards that of an alliance with the local tribes.

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The conquest of Aztec Empire started in 1519 (Williamson, 1993), the people of Aztec who spoke Nahutal language were quite superstitious in their way of life; Brian Diaz in "The Truthful History of the Conquest of New Spain" writes that there were at least 8 omens which happened prior to the conquest Spaniards after which the people of Aztec knew that an invading force will attack them sooner or later. Although there have been historian who disowned the case of 8 omens nonetheless there are still who are quite convinced about such omens occurring, considering there were no contacts with that part of the land to either assume it to be true or consider it to be false.

The conquest of Inca Empire started in 1527; (Williamson, 1993) the reason for its triumph lies in the successful collaboration of conquistadores and their native allies. Prior to the invasion there was a civil war that had already destroyed the Inca Empire and the wrath of this civil war helped the Spaniards to easily take control of the Inca Empire. Spain used classical war….....

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