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CORT É S, HERN Á N (c. 1485 – 1547) CORTÉS, HERNÁN (c. 1485 – 1547), Spanish explorer and conqueror of Mexico. The son of Mart í n Cort é s de Monroy and Catalina Pizarro Altamirano, Hern á n Cort é s was born in Medell í n, in southwestern Spain. His father sent him at age fourteen to study law at the University of Salamanca, but ...
Susan Kellogg. Cortés, Hernán (c. 1484–1547)Hernán Cortés (Fernando, Hernando; b. ca. 1484; d. 2 December 1547), conqueror of Mexico. Hernán Cortés was born in Medellín, Spain, in the province of Extremadura. Best known for his conquest of the Aztecs (Mexica) of central Mexico, he is also renowned for his famous Cartas de relación.
Cortés, Hernán1485–1547Spanish conqueror. S panish conquistador* Hernán Cortés sought adventure, fame, and fortune in the Americas and found all three. He conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico, bringing vast expanses of territory in the New World under Spanish control. He also gained personal wealth and power.
Soto, Hernando de. [Image not available for copyright reasons] c. 1500. Extremadura, Spain. May 21, 1542. Mississippi River. First Spanish explorer in the southeastern United States. W hen the Spanish adventurer Hernando de Soto led an expedition along the western coast of Florida in 1539, he was already a seasoned explorer and a wealthy man.
De Soto was a descendant of a noble family but grew up poor. By the time he was nineteen years old, he had become a soldier and was sent to Spanish-controlled Darien (part of present-day Panama). In 1532 de Soto was sent to South America to help Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475–1541) lead the conquest of the area ruled by the powerful Inca empire ...
Encyclopedia of European Social History. Cortés, Hernán (ca. 1485–1547)Cortés, Hernán (ca. 1485–1547), Spanish conquistadore. Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico and became the most famous of the Spanish conquistadores.Hernán Cortés was born in Medellin. His parents were of the small landed gentry of the region.
Francisco Pizarro. The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro (ca. 1474-1541) was the obscure adventurer and ruffian who discovered and overthrew the Inca empire of Peru. Assassin of the Inca Atahualpa, Pizarro was assassinated in turn by his own countrymen. Francisco Pizarro was born at Trujillo in Estremadura.
Francisco Pizarro (b. ca. 1478; d. 26 June 1541), conqueror of Peru. Pizarro was born in Trujillo, in Estremadura, Spain, the illegitimate son of the young hidalgo Gonzalo Pizarro and a peasant woman, Francisca González. Never recognized by his father, Pizarro seems to have grown up in the household of his mother or her relatives, although he ...
conquistador Leader of the Spanish conquest of the New World in the 16th century. Conquistadores (‘conquerors’) were often ex-soldiers unemployed since the completion of the Christian reconquest of Spain. The most famous were Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro.
De Soto, Hernando 1941-. BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Peruvian economist, Hernando de Soto, best known for his work on the informal economy and its negative effect on poverty amelioration, was born in 1941 in Arequipa. After his father left Peru in 1948 following a military coup, de Soto was educated in Switzerland and did not return to Peru until 1979.