Aztec Empire
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Conquistadors were Spanish soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under the control of Spain in the 15th to 16th centuries, following Europe's discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492. The two perhaps most famous conquistadors were Hernán Cortés who conquered the Aztec Empire and Francisco Pizarro who led the conquest of the Incan Empire. They were second cousins and both of them were born in Extremadura as well as many of the conquerors who were from Spain.
Notable conquistadors
- Hernán Cortés (Mexico, 1518–1522, Baja California, 1532–1536)
- Pedro de Alvarado (Mexico, 1519–1521, Guatemala, El Salvador 1523–1527, Perú, 1533–1535, Mexico, 1540–1541)
- Francisco Pizarro (Perú, 1509–1535)
- Pedro de Candia (Panama, 1527, Colombia and Ecuador, 1528, Peru, 1530)
- Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (United States, 1540–1542)
- Juan de Oñate (New Mexico, United States, 1598–1608)
- Juan Vásquez de Coronado y Anaya (Costa Rica)
- Diego de Almagro (Perú, 1524–1535, Chile, 1535–1537)
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Panamá, 1510–1519)
- Juan Ponce de León (Puerto Rico, 1508, Florida, 1513–1521)
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (United States, 1527–1536, 1540–1542)
- Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (United States, 1524–1527)
- Sebastián de Belalcázar (Ecuador and Colombia, 1533–1536)
- Gonzalo Pizarro (Perú, 1532–1542)
- Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (Cuba, 1511–1519)
- Diego de Ordaz (Venezuela, 1532)
- Juan Pizarro (Perú, 1532–1536)
- Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán,1517)
- Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Nicaragua,1524)
- Hernando Pizarro (Perù, 1532–1560)
- Diego Hernández de Serpa (Venezuela, 1510–1570)
- Juan de Grijalva (Yucatán, 1518)
- Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (Colombia, 1536–1537, Venezuela, 1569–1572)
- Francisco de Montejo (Yucatán, 1527–1546)
- Nicolás Federmann (Venezuela and Colombia, 1537–1539).
- Pánfilo de Narváez (Spanish Florida, 1527–1528)
- Diego de Nicuesa (Panama, 1506–1511)
- Cristóbal de Olid (Honduras, 1523–1524)
- Francisco de Orellana (Amazon River, 1541–1543)
- Hernando de Soto (United States, 1539–1542)
- Inés Suárez, (Chile, 1541)
- Martín de Ursúa, (Petén, Guatemala, 1696–1697)
- Pedro de Valdivia (Chile, 1540–1552)
- Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (Florida, 1565–1567)
- Alonso de Ribera (Chile 1599–1617)
- Alonso de Sotomayor (Chile 1583–1592, Panamá 1592–1604)
- Martín Ruiz de Gamboa (Chile 1552–1590)
- Juan Garrido (Multiple campaigns 1502–1530, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Florida, Mexico)
- Miguel López de Legazpi (Philippines, 1565–1572)
- Juan de Salcedo (Philippines, 1565–1576)
See also
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