the best known voyage of exploration,but Ferdinand Magellan sailed round the world in this period,and Spanish explorers such as Central and Pizarro reached South America.Cortez defeated the Aztecs in what we now know as Mesico and Pizarro defeated the Incas in what we now know as Peru. The ...
Who won the initial battle between the Spanish and Aztecs? How did the Battle of Puebla start? The Mexican-American War was mostly fought over what territory? What countries fought in the Battle of New Orleans? Who won the Battle of Appomattox?
After the Spanish vanquished the Aztecs, Cazonci, the king of Michoacan — whose people were the greatest enemy of the Aztecs who never, or if not very rarely, defeated them in battle — submitted his throne and his kingdom to Spain. Gomara writes that “he offered himself and his ...
It seems as though the concept is very ego driven. Ego of a new government, politicians, etc. I realize that if the US hadn't pursued the concept of manifest destiny that the world would be a very different place; my point is that the pursuit of US expansion seems like a lot of ego...