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1 In their first contacts with native peoples, firearms and especially ________ were very formidable weapons due to the great impression on morale because of the noise, flash and smoke.

2 Sebastián de Belalcázar (Ecuador and ________, 1533–1536)

3 Juan Ponce de León (Puerto Rico, 1508, ________, 1513–1521)

4 The leaders of the conquest of the ________ were Hernán Cortés and Pedro de Alvarado.

5 Cristóbal de Olid (________, 1523–1524)

6 Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (________, 1524–1527)

7 Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (________, 1536–1537, Venezuela, 1569–1572)

8 ________ led the conquest of the Incan Empire.

9 Pedro de Valdivia (________, 1540–1552)

10 The ________, created in 1512–1513, were the first codified set of laws governing the behavior of Spanish settlers in America, particularly with regards to Native Americans.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Chilean wine grape Pais is believed to have descended from the "common black grape" that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés brought to Mexico in 1520?
  • the Mam Maya capital city of Zaculeu (fragment pictured) fell to Spanish conquistador Gonzalo de Alvarado y Chávez after a siege that lasted several months?
  • the town of Hueyapan in the Mexican state of Morelos was conquered by the female conquistador Maria de Estrada?
  • the 2003 book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by ethnohistorian Matthew Restall debunks seven popularly held beliefs about how Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztecs?
  • at the Battle of Cajamarca in 1532 the Inca Emperor Atahualpa was captured by Pizarro's conquistadors and that the battle was a decisive victory in the Spanish conquest of Peru?
  • Pedro Pizarro, a Spanish chronicler and conquistador, took part in the Spanish conquest of Peru and wrote an account of it?
  • Sandia Pueblo in central New Mexico was discovered by Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1539 while on an expedition to discover the seven Cities of Cibola?
  • 17th-century French buccaneer Montbars the Exterminator attacked Spanish settlements in the New World, after reading about conquistador atrocities?
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