17 Facts About Conquistadors

Conquistadors founded numerous cities, some of them in locations with pre-existing settlements, Manila and Mexico City.

Conquistadors took many different roles, including religious leader, harem keeper, King or Emperor, deserter and Native American warrior.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conquistadors found new animal species, but reports confused these with monsters such as giants, dragons, or ghosts.

Conquistadors 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.

Conquistadors 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.