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[51]: 468 Following the discovery and authentication of Cortés's remains, there was a discovery of what were described as the bones of Cuauhtémoc, resulting in a "battle of the bones". [51]: 468 On December 16, 1560, the lawsuits related to vassals of the Cortes estate were resolved by a royal order issued by Philip II. [53]
However, fighting did not completely come to a halt in the ensuing years. In 1546, Spanish authorities discovered silver in the Zacatecas region and established mining settlements in Chichimeca territory which altered the terrain and the Chichimeca traditional way of life. The Chichimeca resisted the intrusions on their ancestral lands by ...
A page from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, showing a Spanish conquistador accompanied by Tlaxcalan allies and a native porter. The sources describing the Spanish conquest of Guatemala include those written by the Spanish themselves, among them two of four letters written by conquistador Pedro de Alvarado to Hernán Cortés in 1524, describing the initial campaign to subjugate the Guatemalan Highlands.
Isla de Sacrificios ("Island of Sacrifices") is an island in the Gulf of Mexico, situated off the Gulf coastline near the port of Veracruz, in Mexico.The waters surrounding the island are part of the Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano National Marine Park.
Gaspar Corte-Real (1450–1501) was a Portuguese explorer who, alongside his father João Vaz Corte-Real and brother Miguel, participated in various exploratory voyages sponsored by the Portuguese Crown.
[6] [51] They discovered the statue of Tziminchác, a stone horse depicted sitting on its hips, in the largest temple. [22] [52] The missionaries were astonished, as there were no horses in the region, [53] and the locals had only seen one through the statue. [49] They learned about Morzillo's origins and the types of offerings made to him ...
The naming of Pedro de Vera [ca; de; es; fr; ro; ru] as the new governor of the island and the arrest of Juan Rejón put an end to the in-fighting that had continued until 1481. c) Suppression of the Guanche resistance and conquest of the island, 1481–83. Pedro de Vera, now undisputed commander of the Castilian forces, resumed the conquest of ...
"The Discovery of America" (Johann Moritz Rugendas) The Spanish expansion has sometimes been succinctly summed up as being motivated by "gold, glory, God", that is, the search for material wealth, the enhancement of the conquerors' and the crown's position, and the expansion of Christianity to the exclusion of other religious traditions.