14 Facts About Conquistadores

Conquistadores later tried to incorporate the kingdom of Portugal by marriage.

Conquistadores initially backed Cortes's expedition to Mexico, but because of his personal enmity for Cortes later ordered Panfilo de Narvaez to arrest him.

Conquistadores sought a way to transport the Potosi's silver to Europe.

Conquistadores fought as a free servant or auxiliary, participating in Spanish expeditions to other parts of Mexico in the 1520s and 1530s.

Conquistadores claimed to have been the first person to plant wheat in Mexico.

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Conquistadores was later awarded an estate in Santiago; a city he would help Valdivia found.

Conquistadores joined the conquest in Venezuela and was made a captain.

Conquistadores was killed at the Zuni village of Hawikuh in present-day New Mexico.

Conquistadores was the first governor-general of the Spanish East Indies.

Conquistadores was succeeded by Francisco Barreto, who served with the title of "governor-general".

Conquistadores had however, already bequeathed the island of Ambon to his Portuguese godfather Jordao de Freitas.

Conquistadores likewise conquered the Portuguese possessions of Elmina Castle, Saint Thomas, and Luanda and Angola.

Conquistadores managed to penetrate the outer defences of the Inca Empire on the hills of the Andes, in present-day Bolivia, the first European to do so, eight years before Francisco Pizarro.

Conquistadores established direct royal control with the Council of the Indies, the most important administrative organ of the Spanish Empire, both in the Americas and in Asia.