Hernan Cortes And Some Conquistadors Summary
Who: Hernan Cortes and some conquistadors
What: White Europeans had single handedly conquered the indigenous people of Latin America
When: Cortes led the expedition in 1519, between 1530’s - 1560’s
Why: Slowly within years, Hernan Cortes took part in conquests of Cuba and Hispaniola, and received more land an native slaves because of this result
-“Thousands of native warriors swarm like bees upon the vastly outnumbered conquistadors, who against all odds fend them off and survive to fight another day” (44). -Restall intrigues, “what has so often been ignored or forgotten is the fact that Spaniards tended also to be outnumbered by their own native allies.
-Furthermore, the ‘invisible warriors’ of this myth took an additional form, that of the Africans, free and enslaved, who accompanied Spanish invaders and in later campaigns equaled or exceeded them in number” (45). …show more content…
-These allies including the Africans, free and enslaved, were alongside the Spanish and helped them in numbers and battle
-Many perhaps view the conquest as an epic battle where the all-mighty Spanish conquistadors were the underdogs who prevailed against the American natives
-As time ticks, new evidence and perhaps new history, and ways of thinking about history, has changed our understanding of the conquest of the Americas
-An example in the chapter is in the film “The Inca Rebellion,” the technology revealed new data of the battle that changed the way historians may have viewed that’s specific incident, and perhaps convey greater truths that the conquest reveals as whole
-People excluded the roles of native allies and the African Americans in the recording of the conquest
-“That Spaniards expected to have several native or black auxiliaries, and that they considered it a great hardship to go without them, is evidence enough of their important role in the
What: White Europeans had single handedly conquered the indigenous people of Latin America
When: Cortes led the expedition in 1519, between 1530’s - 1560’s
Why: Slowly within years, Hernan Cortes took part in conquests of Cuba and Hispaniola, and received more land an native slaves because of this result
-“Thousands of native warriors swarm like bees upon the vastly outnumbered conquistadors, who against all odds fend them off and survive to fight another day” (44). -Restall intrigues, “what has so often been ignored or forgotten is the fact that Spaniards tended also to be outnumbered by their own native allies.
-Furthermore, the ‘invisible warriors’ of this myth took an additional form, that of the Africans, free and enslaved, who accompanied Spanish invaders and in later campaigns equaled or exceeded them in number” (45). …show more content…
-These allies including the Africans, free and enslaved, were alongside the Spanish and helped them in numbers and battle
-Many perhaps view the conquest as an epic battle where the all-mighty Spanish conquistadors were the underdogs who prevailed against the American natives
-As time ticks, new evidence and perhaps new history, and ways of thinking about history, has changed our understanding of the conquest of the Americas
-An example in the chapter is in the film “The Inca Rebellion,” the technology revealed new data of the battle that changed the way historians may have viewed that’s specific incident, and perhaps convey greater truths that the conquest reveals as whole
-People excluded the roles of native allies and the African Americans in the recording of the conquest
-“That Spaniards expected to have several native or black auxiliaries, and that they considered it a great hardship to go without them, is evidence enough of their important role in the