The purpose of Francisco Pizarro’s exploration was to colonize areas of the New World and to find riches there. Pizarro first arrived to the New World…

Francisco Pizarro (1478-1541) was a Spanish conquistador who traveled through much of the Pacific coast of America along Peru. He “discovered” the Incan empire and conquered it brutally and quickly, stealing immense hoards of gold, silver, and other treasures.

Spanish explorer and conquistador Francisco Pizarro helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru, founded its capital city, Lima.

The Inca delivered the gold and silver, but Pizarro executed Atahualpa anyway. Pizarro then marched to Cuzco and took over the city in 1533. He looted the city of its treasure.

The Inca were fond of gold and silver and used it for ornaments and for decorating their temples and palaces, as well as for personal jewelry. Many objects were made of solid gold. As the Andes Mountains are rich in minerals, the Incans accumulated a great deal of gold and silver by the time the Spaniards arrived.

For many people, gold is the most highly-coveted precious metal and a marker of social standing. For the ancient Mayans, gold was surpassed by a different precious stone.

Aztec treasure discovered at Mexico City construction site It weighs 4.25 pounds. A 4-pound gold bar that was discovered during construction work in Mexico City nearly 40 years ago has been identified as a long-lost Aztec treasure that was stolen by Spanish conquistadors 500 years ago.

Answer: SG stressed the equal value placed on jade and quetzal feathers (often mentioned together as the most ‘precious things’ in Aztec life), noting, along with Camilla Townsend, that the Aztecs compared a child to be born to a precious jade, a precious quetzal feather.

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El Dorado was a term first used by the Spanish Empire to describe the mythical chief of the Muisca tribe which inhabited the Andes region of Colombia, in the highlands of Cundinamarca and Boyaca. The Muisca tribe was part of the big four tribes of the Americas (Aztec, Maya, Inca and Muisca) between 800 and 500BCE.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Europeans believed that somewhere in the New World there was a place of immense wealth known as El Dorado. But this place of immeasurable riches hasn’t been found.

The Source of Their Gold The Aztec gold originated from parts of Oaxaca and Guerrero that were under Aztec control. The raw gold imported as dust and ingots to the Aztec kingdom. In addition, the rulers of these areas gave gifts of gold items to the Aztec Emperor as a tribute.

The Spanish colonization entailed forced labor and mandatory conversion to Christianity. Those Maya who refused to give up their pantheistic religious practices were arrested and tortured for heresy. Mayan artifacts were actively destroyed and all but a few of their sacred texts burnt.

Montezuma’s treasure is a reality, and we believe it is located here in the Americas, hidden in several locations spanning at least four states, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.

Montezuma’s treasure is a legendary buried treasure said to be located in the Casa Grande ruins or elsewhere in the southwest United States and Mexico. The legend is one of many treasure stories in American folklore.

KANAB (ABC 4 Utah) – Historians say the richest cache of gold is hidden in southern Utah and that it’s buried deep within its caverns. Hundreds of people have explored land and water to find it but still, to this day, nobody has gotten close to Montezuma’s treasure.

Aztec legend says little about Aztlan, apart from that it was a small island on a lake inhabited by herons north of Mexico City. If it is ever found, archeologists do not expect to discover much in the way of treasure or ruins there.

As soon as they were recognized, men quickly took up Moctezuma’s body and carried it to Copulco, placed it on a pile of wood and fired it. As he burned, onlookers berated him; their goodwill had given way to fury. The bodies of Montezuma and Itzquauhtzin are cast out of the palace by the Spaniards.

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