Results for “Spanish colonization”

Hernán Cortés

Hernán Cortés was the ambitious Spanish conquistador whose 1519–1521 campaign toppled the Aztec Empire and welded much of modern-day Mexico to the Crown of Castile, forever altering the political, cultural, and demographic trajectory of the Americas.

Francisco Pizarro

Francisco Pizarro was the illiterate yet cunning Spanish conquistador whose 1532 ambush of Inca ruler Atahualpa at Cajamarba opened the way for Spain’s seizure of the largest native empire in the Americas.

Tejano

The Festival of the Dead in Guanche Culture