HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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Question
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destroyed the Aztecs and Incas
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captured Brazil
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colonized N/A
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exploration of the Indies
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Their expeditions resulted in “1", the destruction of the Incas and Aztecs. Although each man had considerable help and benefited from special circumstances (namely the death of many Incas and Aztecs to smallpox), Cortes defeated the Aztec Empire and Pizzaro in the Inca.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cortés’s army besieged Tenochtitlán for 93 days, and a combination of superior weaponry and a devastating smallpox outbreak enabled the Spanish to conquer the city. Cortés’s victory destroyed the Aztec empire, and the Spanish began to consolidate control over what became the colony of New Spain.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pizarro then conquered Cuzco, another important Inca city, and founded the city of Lima, now the capital of Peru.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1532, accompanied by his brothers, and 168 Spanish soldiers, Francisco Pizarro overthrew the Inca leader Atahualpa and conquered Peru, which ended the reign of the Inca Empire.