Indian Conquistadors Patrick Aspell

History 140

12/7/2010

• Spanish Mexica war from 1519 to 1521. How the Spaniards who were exploring and overrunning the Indians, reporting to the king. Sent reports which would lead to riches and glory.

• Many battles between the Spanish and the Natives. A lot of damages done during these battles, some lasted over 100 days.

• Conquistadors claimed they had conquered America without help but that did not work.

• Natives did not like the idea that the Spanish did all the work. Native allies with Spanish also outnumbered them.

• With the increasing Spaniard presence natives help decreased.

• Spaniards took whatever resources they could get there hands on.

• This brought a lot of tension between the natives and Spanish. A lot of the gold and silver were forged into Indian Idols, Spanish came and took all artifacts.

• No real idea why the natives helped the Spanish

• Spanish would have failed without the help of the natives