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1951-Christopher Columbus birth and young life!

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1951-Christopher Columbus birth and young life!

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Christopher Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa Italy. He had 3 brothers and 1  sister. His father was a wool weaver and owned a cheese stand, Christopher Columbus worked there during his childhood. He loved sailing the ocean blue because when he was 13 he took his first trip across the ocean blue and loved it!!!

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Columbus started exploring at a young age. He brought three ships named the Nina , Pinta and Santa marina.He wanted to find a new way to get to china to get spices and gold for the king. On the morning of October 12 the crew of the Pinta saw land. Another reason he wanted to get to China is there was a war going along the silk road were his country traded for spices. Also, he was motivated to gain personal wealth because the king and queen said he could be governor of any land he found and could keep 10 percent of any merchandise.

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THE FIRST VOYAGE - Christopher Columbus ep. 2 - EN

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 August  3, 1492- when he left the docks

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 August  3, 1492- when he left the docks

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Christopher Columbus was able to sail because of the king and queen. They gave him every thing he would need to sail. They gave him the boat along with the crew. He also sailed to go get gold and spices for the king and queen. So he sailed to go find the gold and spices for the king and queen.

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Christopher Columbus died when he was 54 years old. On his trip to the New World he had been sick  and  he may have gotten diseases well in the Americas. He enslaved and punished the native people and turn them into their servants. He killed of many native people because of diseases he and his crew brought to the new world.

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Christopher Columbus - Facts, Voyage & Discovery

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The explorer Christopher Columbus made four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. His most famous was his first voyage, commanding the ships the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria to the Americas.

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1478-Francisco Pizarro's birth and early life

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1478-Francisco Pizarro's birth and early life

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He was born around 1474 in Truiilo, spain. His dad was a spanish army colonel and his mother was poor. His education was low but he was very litterate, unable to read or write.

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Pizzaro wanted lots of glory and power. Also he wanted farming,crops , agurculter and animals. He desiered gold and riches and he was realy gready. He traveled to hispaniola to seak his fortune.

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He used horses which they could ride on it gave them an atvantage on the battle feild because the Incas have never seen them. They had the most advanced wepons the Incas have never seen. Pizzaro captured the king of the Incas.

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Quick Facts
"Choose. You may return to the poverty of Panama or cross this line and come with me through infinite dangers but eventual wealth.""Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.""No man should think of going forward in the expedition, who could not do so with his whole heart, or who had the least misgiving as to its success.""Let every one of you take heart and go forward like a good soldier, nothing daunted by the smallness of your numbers.""For in the greatest extremity God ever fights for his own; and doubt not he will humble the pride of the heathen, and bring him to the knowledge of the true faith, the great end and object of the Conquest.""They were to rely on themselves, and on that Providence which had carried them safe through so many fearful trials. It would not now desert them; and if numbers, however great, were on the side of their enemy, it mattered little when the arm of Heaven was on theirs.""Let no one, who values his life, strike at the Inca.""What treason is this that you have meditated against me? Me, who have ever treated you with honor, confiding in your words, as in those of a brother?""Friends and comrades! On that side [south] are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south."

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Francisco Pizarro

Birth Date

c. 1476

Death Date

June 26, 1541

Place of Birth

Trujillo, Spain

Place of Death

Lima, Peru

Who Was Francisco Pizarro?

In 1513, Francisco Pizarro joined Vasco Núñez de Balboa in his march to the "South Sea," during which Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean. In 1532, Pizarro and his brothers conquered Peru. Three years later, Pizarro founded the nation's new capital, Lima. Pizarro was assassinated on June 26, 1541, in Lima, Peru, by vengeful members of an enemy faction of conquistadors.

Early Years

Pizarro was born an illegitimate child circa 1476, in Trujillo, Spain - an area stricken by poverty. His father, Captain Gonzalo Pizarro, was a poor farmer. His mother, Francisca González, was of humble heritage. Pizarro grew up without learning how to read. Instead, he herded his father's pigs.

As a young man, Pizarro heard tales of the New World and was seized by a lust for fortune and adventure. In 1510, he accompanied Spanish explorer Alonzo de Ojeda on a voyage to Urabá, Colombia. Although the expedition was unfruitful, Pizarro proved he could be relied on in a bind.

March to the Sea

In 1513, Pizarro joined conquistador Balboa in his march to the "South Sea," across the Isthmus of Panama. During their journey, Balboa and Pizarro discovered what is now known as the Pacific Ocean, although Balboa allegedly spied it first, and was therefore credited with the ocean's first European discovery.

Ironically, Pizarro later arrested Balboa under the orders of Pedro Arias de Ávila (also known as Pedrarias), Balboa's rival and a known tyrant. Afterward, Pizarro stayed in Panama for a time, where he was awarded an estate, served as mayor of Panama City and amassed a small fortune.

Reconnaissance Voyages

In 1524, Pizarro teamed up with navigator Diego de Almagro and a priest named Fernando de Luque. The first of their reconnaissance voyages went as far as the San Juan River. The next gave Pizarro the chance to explore further south along the coast. In the meantime, Pizarro's chief navigator, Bartolomé Ruiz, forged across the equator and then returned with word of those regions south of the equator.

Conquering Peru and Death

In 1528, Pizarro went back to Spain and managed to procure a commission from Emperor Charles V. Pizarro was to conquer the southern territory and establish a new Spanish province there. In 1532, accompanied by his brothers, Pizarro overthrew the Inca leader Atahualpa and conquered Peru. Three years later, he founded the new capital city of Lima.

Over time, tensions increasingly built up between the conquistadors who had originally conquered Peru and those who arrived later to stake some claim in the new Spanish province. As a result, conquistadors were torn into two factions - one run by Pizarro, and the other by his former associate, Almagro. After taking Cuzco, Almagro engaged Pizarro and his brothers in the Battle of Las Salinas. Upon the Pizarro brothers' victory, in 1538, Hernando Pizarro captured and executed Almagro. On June 26, 1541, in Lima, Peru, members of the defeated party avenged Almagro's death by assassinating Pizarro.

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"Choose. You may return to the poverty of Panama or cross this line and come with me through infinite dangers but eventual wealth." "Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other." "No man should think of going forward in the expedition, who could not do so with his whole heart, or who had the least misgiving as to its success."

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The biggest way they effected the new world was by bringing smallpox. He brought guns and stell wepons knowing of people in the new world. Pizzaro started the first spanish settlement in pure called the san migue de piura. The Incas had just fought a civl war between the two brothers atahualpa and huascar.

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Dutch Exploration

While Spain and Portugal had dominated exploration, other nations also began to send out explorers. One of these nations was the Netherlands.

In the late 1500s A.D., the Dutch enjoyed one of the highest standards of living among all the Europeans. They had grown wealthy through trade and commerce. However, their homeland was small, and there was little room for farming or manufacturing. In order to maintain their wealth, the Dutch decided to look at colonizing new lands.

Dutch leaders founded The Dutch East India Company to help expand trade throughout the Indian Ocean. They established their headquarters on the island of Batavia in Indonesia in 1619. They then used Batavia as a base to further push their control outward in the region.

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Dutch Exploration While Spain and Portugal had dominated exploration, other nations also began to send out explorers. One of these nations was the Netherlands. In the late 1500s A.D., the Dutch enjoyed one of the highest standards of living among all the Europeans. They had grown wealthy through trade and commerce.

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1485 -  Hernando cortes Birth and young life

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1485 -  Hernando cortes Birth and young life

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He was born around 1485. His mothers name was Blanca Ocasio cortes. His name was Herman. He was very advetures. At the age of 14 he was sent to University of Salamanca to study law.

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November 8, 1519,- his first exploration

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November 8, 1519,- his first exploration

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Cortes chose to be an explorer and conquer the Aztecs because he wanted gold and agriculture that was on the new world.There were riches . There were minerals . Cortes was greedy for weath and the aztcets was more wealthy than the european nation. Also he was motivated by riches and fame, he did not have that as a child he had a poor upriseing. In addition he wanted to  show people that he was powerful and not a joke. Cortes wanted natinal reasorces because in england they were all gone.

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Who was Hernán Cortés? Everything You Need to Know

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Hernán Cortés was a Spanish soldier, better known as the conqueror of Mexico. This biography profiles the childhood, life and timeline of this adventurer

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Cortes only had about 500 troops, but the Aztecs had 100,000+ warriorsOnce Motazuma was kidnapped they did not know what to do . They were out of control . Cortes was  able to conQuer the aztecs because they tought they were gods , also they used millitary stratagies. Next he took people hostige. The aztects did not horses ,guns  and steel tecnoligy. All they had was bronze and wooden things. One reason is people wanted to help over throw the aztects. The people were enraged with the Aztec king Motazuma.

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Hernán Cortés Biography 1484 - 1547 http://www.cloudbiography.com Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro was a Spanish Conquistador born in Medellin, Castile who led an expedition to the Americas. Hernán Cortés' expeditions brought an end to the Aztec Empire in mainland Mexico by bringing the region under the rule of the King of Castile in early 16th Century.

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Cortes defeated the Aztecs because he had guns, swords, horses, diseases and metal. They died because of smallpox   He led to finding modern day California, He brought over half the population to the new world and now the population is healthy again. But he did have a nasty change he wiped out a whole tribe and now they are exctinct. He did a right and a wrong thing at the same time.

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By modern Western standards, the Aztec nation of Mexico was a barbarian one, then again, so was the conquistador army of Hernando Cortéz that destroyed it in 1521. By the time Cortéz died, twenty six years later on this day in 1547, the native peoples of central America were living under the rule of Spain.

'They were not the stuff of which bureaucrats are made' wrote one historian of the conquistadors with heroic understatement The men who were sent to America to extend the Spanish Empire were, by necessity, largely desperate individuals, men who had little to lose in sailing to an unknown and dangerous territory Many were seduced by the promise, usually illusory, of gold and unimaginable riches for the taking. This partly explains their savage behaviour once they arrived on the continent, but does not take into account the machinations of their leaders, especially Cortéz.

Although he never did, Cortéz wanted to rule Spain's colony in central America In this sense he was a young man in a hurry, anxious to destroy the existing Aztec civilisation under its leader, Moctezuma, and establish his own power base. As a non-aristocratic man from Extramadura, a bare and outlying part of Spain, Cortéz, like many conquistadors, knew the only way he would ever be a powerful land-owning dynast would be in the New World rather than the Old.

In this situation, the Aztecs stood little chance When the Spanish arrived in the capital Tenochtitlan in 1519, Moctezuma greeted them wanly but amicably. The Aztecs were not a primitive people They were certainly aggressive and often gruesome in their practices - human sacrifice to the gods was a daily part of life - but their civilisation was highly developed and their capital city, artificially built on a lake for protection, was beautifully laid out around a sophisticated temple complex. It was also larger and more populous than many Spanish cities, including Seville, Granada, Toledo and Valencia.

At first the Spanish were friendly, exchanging gifts and behaving well, but Cortéz soon seized Moctezuma and held him hostage. When Moctezuma died in June 1520, the Aztecs finally rose up and drove the Spanish out. But the conquistadors soon returned and razed the city in August 1521.

Cortéz was not master of Mexico. But having won the territory by force he found it difficult to rule. As the years went by Cortéz, the self styled Captain General of New Spain of the Ocean Sea, administered the Colony in an increasingly arrogant and regal manner. The colony was full of men as ambitious and ruthless as himself who formed themselves Into pro and anti-Cortez parties. Rumours were spread that he had murdered his wife, complaints made about this highhanded style, plots hatched against him. Finally, officials were despatched by Spain to help administer the colony, which did not improve Cortéz already volatile and bitter temperament.

Cortéz never achieved the title of Viceroy he so desired He had made too many enemies. In 1540 he gave up and returned to Spain, leaving behind the colony he had created by the force of his personality. He would never truly rule the empire he helped create. But, even so, he had established a form or rule that was every bit as influential as Britain's interventions in North America while an independent USA adopted the parliamentary democracy of its former colonial master, most South American states, or at least the generals and dictator politicians that rule them, favour something more along the lines of Cortéz and the conquistadors, and with equally bloody results.

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By modern Western standards, the Aztec nation of Mexico was a barbarian one, then again, so was the conquistador army of Hernando Cortéz that destroyed it in 1521. By the time Cortéz died, twenty six years later on this day in 1547, the native peoples of central America were living under the rule of Spain.