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A
Conquistador
(
English
:
Conqueror
; :
Conquistadores
, or
Conquistadors
) was a
Spanish
or
Portuguese
soldier,
explorer
and adventurer.
[1]
[2]
The
Conquistadors
invaded and conquered much of
the Americas
and the
Philippines
Islands and other islands in
Asia Pacific
. Many of them were
hidalgos
(
noblemen
of low category).
Their conquests brought these lands under
Spanish
colonial rule between the
15th
and
17th
centuries, starting with the 1492 settlement by
Christopher Columbus
in what is now the
Bahamas
. They created what is now called
Latin America
.
[3]
The first successful conquistador was
Hernan Cortes
. Between 1520 and 1521, Cortes and the native enemies of the
Aztecs
, conquered the mighty
Aztec Empire
. Present day
Mexico
came under the dominion of the
Spanish Empire
, as
New Spain
.
Francisco Pizarro
later found and conquered the similarly large
Inca Empire
.
[4]
- Alonso Davila
(
Mexico
, 1520-1533)
- Alonso del Castillo Maldonado
- Alonso de Ojeda
(
Venezuela
,
Colombia
,
Guyana
,
Aruba
)
- Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
(
United States
, 1527-1536, 1540-1542)
- Antonio de Aragon
, Tucuman (
Argentina
)
- Cristobal de Olid
(
Honduras
, 1523-1524)
- Diego de Almagro
(
Peru
, 1524-1535,
Chile
, 1535-1537)
- Diego de Nicuesa
(
Panama
, 1506-1511)
- Diego Velazquez de Cuellar
(
Cuba
, 1511-1519)
- Domingo Martinez de Irala
- Francisco de Montejo
(Yucatan,
Mexico
, 1527-1546)
- Francisco de Orellana
(
Amazon River
, 1541-1543)
- Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba
(Yucatan,
Mexico
, 1517)
- Francisco Pizarro
(
Peru
, 1509-1535)
- Francisco Vazquez de Coronado
(
United States
, 1540-1542)
- Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada
(
Colombia
, 1536-1537,
Venezuela
, 1569-1572)
- Gonzalo Pizarro
(
Peru
, 1532-1542)
- Hernan Cortes
(
Mexico
, 1518-1522,
Honduras
, 1524,
Baja California
, 1532-1536)
- Hernando de Soto
(
United States
, 1539-1542)
- Hernando Pizarro
, (
Peru
, 1532-1560)
- Ines Suarez
, (
Chile
, 1541)
- Juan de Esquivel
, (
Jamaica
, 1509-1512)
- Juan de Salcedo
, (North of
Philippines
, 1570-1576)
- Juan de Grijalva
(Yucatan,
Mexico
, 1518)
- Juan Pizarro
, (
Peru
, 1532-1536)
- Juan Ponce de Leon
(
Puerto Rico
, 1508,
Florida
, 1513 and 1521)
- Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
- Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon
(
United States
, 1524-1527)
- Martin de Goiti
, (
Manila
,
Philippines
, 1570-1571)
- Martin de Ursua
, (Peten,
Guatemala
, 1696-1697)
- Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
, (
Philippines
, 1565-1571)
- Nicolas de Federmann
(
Venezuela
and
Colombia
, 1537-1539)
- Panfilo de Narvaez
(
Florida
, 1527-1528)
- Pedro de Alvarado
(
Mexico
, 1519-1521,
Guatemala
, 1523-1527,
Peru
, 1533-1535, Mexico, 1540-1541)
- Pedro de Valdivia
(
Chile
, 1540-1552)
- Pedro Menendez de Aviles
(
Florida
, 1565-1567)
- Sebastian de Belalcazar
(
Ecuador
and
Colombia
, 1533-1536)
- Sebastian Vizcaino
- Vasco Nunez de Balboa
(
Panama
, 1510-1519)