https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2018-11-29 15:28:04 UTC 2026-03-04 04:28:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/309469595 Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa Italy 1451. His father was a wool weaver and worked at a cheese stand. He had 3 brothers and 1 sister  Columbus has always had a passion for trading and exploring. He started exploring when he was very young. Columbus wanted to go on a trip across the ocean. So he kept asking the King and Queen of Spain to fund his trip. After a couple years later the King and Queen decided to fund his trip. Many People thought Columbus discovered the New world but that is not true 500 hundred years before Columbus went to the new world  a viking Leif Erikson. 

]]> 2018-11-29 18:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/309469595 https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/309472655 He was born in 1485 in Medellin, Spain. Cortes became an explorer and conquer because  when he was little he and his family were poor and could not afford much things. He also wanted jewels,gold, and riches. When he got older he was sent to the New World by the King & Queen to find new resources and other valuable resources.  ]]> 2018-11-29 18:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/309472655 https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/309476869 Cortes and his men kidnapped Montezuma. They also used military strategy to fight the Aztecs.The Spanish also carried smallpox from the animals back in Spain and the Aztecs caught it and it wiped out 5-8 million Aztecs. At first they did not fight back because they thought the Spanish were gods.The Aztecs often sacrificed their people to their gods and because of that many of them joined Cortes. The Aztecs didn't have horses or guns so that gave Cortes a huge advantage. Cortes had an army of 500 Spanish men. Montezuma had over 100,000 warriors.      ]]> 2018-11-29 18:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/309476869 nickpestone https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/309910569 The impact Cortes had on the new world was in a couple years he completely wiped out the Aztecs and named the whole land New Spain. Cortes changed the development of the western world by opening the door for more explorers to come to the new word and conquer more land. He also brought newer technology like the gun,  steel, domesticated animals and horses. Cortes also helped build mexico city or new Spain with the help of all his technology. All though when he killed one of his leaders the leaders son assassinated him in his home on 1575.

     

]]> 2018-11-30 18:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/309910569 nickpestone https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/314404230 He built the the bridge from the old world to the new world 
Columbus also enslaved many native people. Columbus got arrested for killing people without trial. He made the Native Americans do labor by making them mine for gold. Columbus came back to Spain with slaves with him and this made Queen Isabella very upset. Later on in his life he got arrested by the Spain law enforcement. Christopher Columbus died on May 20, 1506 he was 56 years old. He died of congestive heart failure.]]> 2018-12-13 18:38:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/314404230 https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/314761140  In 1538 Pizarro captured and executed Almagro. Pizarro was assassinated on June 26 1541,in Lima, Peru, members of the defeated party avenge Almargo and vengeful members of an enemy faction of conquistadors had assassinated Pizarro in his home.   


]]> 2018-12-14 18:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/314761140 https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/314767595 2018-12-14 18:18:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/314767595 nickpestone https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/314776071 Pizarro entered the city of Cajamarca and took the Inca leader Atahuapla hostage. Despite having paid a ransom to spare his life, Atahuapla was killed in 1533. Pizarro then conquered Cuzco, another important Inca city, and founded the city of Lima, now the capital of Peru.

]]> 2018-12-14 18:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/314776071 nickpestone https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/314776281 Pizarro was born in Trujillo Spain 1476—an area stricken by poverty. His family was poor. Pizarro heard many tales about the new world. He wanted fortune and adventure.]]> 2018-12-14 18:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/314776281 nickpestone https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/314777189 2018-12-14 18:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/314777189 https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/316246155 2018-12-20 18:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/316246155 https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/316246307 2018-12-20 18:09:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nickpestone/go50c19x49vv/wish/316246307