# data[].attributes.body
Christoper Columbus was born  in 1451 on October, 31. He was born in Genoa, Italy to his mother, Susanna Fontanarossa and his father, Dominic Colombo. His father worked at at cheese stand and also worked as a wool weaver. He had 3 brothers and 1 sister. As a teenager he was a trader, he learned how to make maps and navigate a ship. As he grew older he learned about the Indies and how much riches and spices it held. When he heard about it he needed to get it immediately.

He spent 10 years looking for a ruler to fund his trip to the Indies. When he finally found two rulers, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Aragon.

# data[].attributes.body
He spent almost a decade  planning for his journey to the Indies. When he finally set sail on August 3,1492. He was ready to go to the Indies. He was hoping to go around the entire world but, he didn't know that there was the Americas in the way He took 3 ships named the Nina, The Pinta and The Santa Maria. The Santa Maria was the largest ship out of all of them.He took 87 men. There was 20 on the Nina,26 on the Pinta and 41 on the Santa Maria. 3 days into the journey on August 6,1492, the rudder on the Pinta broke. The rudder is to change direction in the boats. Luckily he and his crew fixed it. The journey was rough. It was long. But, on October 12, 1492 he landed on a island on the Bahamas called San Salvador.

# data[].attributes.body
When Columbus landed in the Americas he thought that he was in the Indies. So while he was is "The Indies" He called the Native Americans Indians. He made  3 more trips to the New World. When he was making those trips he still thought that he was going back and forth from  Italy to The Indies while he was really go back and forth from Italy to The Bahamas. He enslaved many Native Americans,killed them and did terrible things,but he did helped a lot for the colonization of the Americas.

# data[].attributes.body
Francisco Pizarro Gonzalez was born  in 1478 in Crown of Castile, Trujillo, Spain. His father was, Gonzalo Pizarro, a Spanish army colonial. His mother was a poor women who lived in Trujillo. Francisco had very low education and was illiterate. He was unable to read or write. Francisco was raised by his grandparents since his parents weren't married. For several years Pizarro worked as a pig herder. His first voyage was with the explorer Alonso de Ojeda on an expedition to Urabá in 1509.

# data[].attributes.body
Columbus was motivated by a lot of things. The one thing that stood out the most to Columbus that motivated him to do what he did is the riches and spices The Indies hold in their country. Spices is one  part of what Columbus was dying to get. He grew up poor like most of the people who lived in Italy in the  1400's. Since he didn't have much money growing up he wanted to have more for his adulthood. But when he took the wrong way to try and get to the Indies, that all changed for Columbus.

# data[].attributes.body
Columbus died in Valladolid,Spain. He died on May 20 1506. He died of congested heart failure. When Columbus died he still thought that he went to The indies 3 times when he really went to The Bahamas 3 times. What do you think?  Columbus. Hero or Villain?

# data[].attributes.body
Francisco heard rumors talking about the new World and the riches. He would hope to travel there,and wanted to discover his fortune.  The expedition The  Pizarro heard of Cortés's success's and wanted to defeat an empire, too. Pizarro went on a voyage in 1532 to Central America. On November 16, in the same year, Pizarro sprung a trap on the Incan King Atahualpa. He then convinced Atahualpa to give him and his men all of their gold and silver in exchange for Atahualpa to be let go. Pizarro wanted all of the Incan's gold and silver. So Atahualpa offered to fill a large room with gold and twice that amount of silver. After Atahualpa gave the Spaniards the Incan's riches, they promptly killed him.

# data[].attributes.headline
1485, The Explorer that Conquered the Aztecs was Born

# data[].attributes.subject
1485, The Explorer that Conquered the Aztecs was Born

# data[].attributes.body
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano was born in 1485 was born in Medellin, Spain. In the early 1500s, when Hernan was about 15, he Hernan helped advance Spain position North America. In 1504, Hernan Cortes went to Santa Domingo, or Hispaniola. He settled in the town of Azúa where he served as a notary for a few years. A notary is a person authorized to perform certain legal formalities, especially to draw up or certify contracts, deeds, and other documents for use in other jurisdictions.

# data[].attributes.headline
What advantages that Pizarro had by defeating the Incas

# data[].attributes.subject
What advantages that Pizarro had by defeating the Incas

# data[].attributes.body
Spain was the biggest army at the time. Spain joined forces with Pizarro. They had  guns and swords that the Incas hadn't heard about. The Spain had swords that were meant for slashing and stabbing. Also Pizarro also had a advantage because There army had good ownership and and they were loyal to there Horse. Incas didn't know that you could ride horses they thought the Incas were  gods. Pizarro had a book or a diary that the Aztecs have Kidnap the Incas emperor. Pizarro followed the steps of how he captured the Incas emperor and that is how he defeated the Incas.

# data[].attributes.body
In 1511, Hernan Cortes sets off on a journey led by Diego Velázquez to Cuba. There, Cortes worked in the civil government and served as Mayor of Santiago for a while. In 1518, Cortes wanted to command his own expedition to Mexico, but Velázquez was like, "Nuh-uh". But Cortes went against orders and brought 500 men and 11 ships. It took almost a year for Cortes to reach the Mexican coast. Cortes was an ally to some of the native peoples. They hated the Aztecs for their brutality and wanted to assist the Spanish in defeating them. But some of the native peoples he annihilated with deadly force. Some of those natives were the Tlaxacan and Cholula people. Cortes and his men marched to Tenochitilán, home of Montezuma ll, and capital of the Aztec empire.

# data[].attributes.headline
Pizarro affected the civilization and change the development of the western World.

# data[].attributes.subject
Pizarro affected the civilization and change the development of the western World.

# data[].attributes.body
The people in Europe had chickens pocks and was contagious and the Americans got affected with it. That was how many people died .