How Did Spain Gain Wealth?
Both Spain and Portugal were eager to expand beyond the European continent by the early sixteenth century because of wealth flowing through Northern Europe and that they both had a poor management and weak home industries. In this competition for global power, Spain, rather than Portugal, laid claim to most of South America because Spain and England was stressed that Portugal would utilize its developing wealth to try to command them so they choose to take care of this issue by exploring the Americas to gain wealth. Granted, Spain had to fight for its conquests, but in battle after battle - such as the defeat of the Inca Empire in 1532 - the Spanish proved victorious. Proximate factors such as horses, superior technology, and diseases explain
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Pizarro with under 200 men against a few thousands, draws Atahualpa to a feast in the emperor's respect. In spite of the fact that Atahualpa had about 80,000 fighters with him in the mountains, he went to the feast with just 5,000 unarmed men. A traveler with Pizarro urged Atahualpa to change over to Christianity which he refuses not to. Pizarro at that point open fire at the 5,000 unarmed Incans who were altogether slaughtered in about an hour. Pizarro kept Atahualpa alive for some time just because it's more profitable alive than dead. Later on Atahualpa at that point offered them a room loaded with gold and silver in return of his freedom, which Pizarro executed Atahualpa after. Pizarro's victory marked the finish of the Inca Empire and the start of the European colonization of the South America. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond utilizes the Spanish conquest of the Incas to show what he calls the proximate factors for European domination. He listed various factors that enabled the Spanish to vanquish the Incas. He used the catch of Atahuallpa as a story in which we can see these different factors playing out. Other factors included military technology in view of firearms, horses, steal weapons, diseases such as smallpox, measles, and etc. endemic in Eurasia, European sea innovation, and lastly the European
Pizarro with under 200 men against a few thousands, draws Atahualpa to a feast in the emperor's respect. In spite of the fact that Atahualpa had about 80,000 fighters with him in the mountains, he went to the feast with just 5,000 unarmed men. A traveler with Pizarro urged Atahualpa to change over to Christianity which he refuses not to. Pizarro at that point open fire at the 5,000 unarmed Incans who were altogether slaughtered in about an hour. Pizarro kept Atahualpa alive for some time just because it's more profitable alive than dead. Later on Atahualpa at that point offered them a room loaded with gold and silver in return of his freedom, which Pizarro executed Atahualpa after. Pizarro's victory marked the finish of the Inca Empire and the start of the European colonization of the South America. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond utilizes the Spanish conquest of the Incas to show what he calls the proximate factors for European domination. He listed various factors that enabled the Spanish to vanquish the Incas. He used the catch of Atahuallpa as a story in which we can see these different factors playing out. Other factors included military technology in view of firearms, horses, steal weapons, diseases such as smallpox, measles, and etc. endemic in Eurasia, European sea innovation, and lastly the European