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Mexico’s President is Asking for an Apology from King Felipe VI and the Pope 500 Years After Historical Conquest

Trista April 2, 2019 15 min

28. The Conquistadors Were After “Gold, God, and Glory”

The painting called Landing of Columbus by John Vanderlyn. Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain.

They didn’t set out to terrorize native peoples. Rather, they wanted to claim new lands for the empire, find gold that would make them exceedingly wealthy, and convert the native peoples to Catholicism. The agenda seemed benign, if not helpful to the indigenous peoples that the conquistadors would encounter.

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28. The Conquistadors Were After “Gold, God, and Glory”

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