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Spanish conquistadors

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colonizers explorers historical group military personnel

Spanish conquistadors were soldiers, explorers, and adventurers from Spain who led the military campaigns that brought much of the Americas under Spanish control in the 16th century.

Aliases (1)

Spanish colonial authorities ×1

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	colonizers → explorers → historical group → military personnel →
activeInCentury	15th century → 16th century → 17th century →
conqueredEmpire	Aztec Empire → Inca Empire →
conqueredRegion	Caribbean islands → Central America → Mexico → New Granada → Peru → Río de la Plata region →
countryOfOrigin	Crown of Castile NERFINISHED → Spain →
economicActivity	encomienda system → looting of precious metals → slave raiding →
employer	Spanish Crown →
historicalPeriod	Age of Discovery → European colonization of the Americas →
language	Spanish →
legalFramework	Capitulación → Requerimiento →
militaryCampaignsIn	Americas → Caribbean → Mesoamerica → North America → Philippines → South America →
motive	expansion of Spanish Empire → personal glory → search for wealth → spread of Christianity →
notableMember	Diego de Almagro NERFINISHED → Francisco Pizarro → Francisco de Orellana → Hernando de Soto → Hernán Cortés → Juan Ponce de León → Pedro de Alvarado → Pedro de Valdivia NERFINISHED → Vasco Núñez de Balboa →
patron	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor → Philip II of Spain NERFINISHED →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
resultedIn	Spanish colonization of the Americas → collapse of indigenous empires → establishment of viceroyalties → spread of Old World diseases in the Americas →
socialBackground	adventurers → lesser nobility → professional soldiers →
usedTechnology	horses → ships → steel armor → war dogs →
usedWeapon	arquebus → crossbow → sword →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
La Noche Triste → Spanish conquest of Chile →	combatant
Cuitláhuac → Moctezuma II →	opponent
Cempoala →	alliedWith
Medellín, Crown of Castile →	associatedWith
Spanish conquest of Yucatán →	belligerent
Atahualpa →	capturedBy
Lake Texcoco →	conqueredBy
Templo Mayor →	destroyedBy
Cuauhtémoc ("Spanish colonial authorities") →	killedBy
Spanish colonization of the Americas →	participant