Conquistadors

Did they have the greatest adventure in history?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No Vikings and Polynesians where able to reach the new world without sperging out like a bunch of genocidal maniacs like the Spanish did.
    butthole/10

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They both were to weak to pull off what the conquistadors did, not morally superior. Frick the natives would've done the same to the western world given half a chance. Now stop reading those shitty history books written from a moronic Marxian angle(or rather watching shitty breadtuber), and read a real history book divorced from imposing today's morals(which as all morals in history is doubious at best and a product of its time) on past events.
      Or you know just KYS, nobody including your own mom would miss a homosexual who thinks like you anyways(there's plenty of those going arround already, one more one less..).

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Beaner cope

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Seethe Papist scum

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          you heretic that'll burn in hell for all eternity for willingly turning your backs on the very church Jesus Christ himself founded still seething?
          hey heretic, where exactly did Jesus say female priests are okay? I don't think he ever did thus you're an abomination.

          GIGA BONUS:
          >think of the most cucked and degenerate countries in the christian world
          >they are all, let me repeat that: THEY.ARE.ALL, majority protestant aren't they?
          how will you cope with this one?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >venerating Saints
            >buying penance
            >celebrating poorly disguised pagan holidays
            Not even Christian just literal crypto pagans. Martin Luther did nothing wrong.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Absolutely seething German jealous of the legacy of Rome.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Booty blasted blasphemer

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >GIGA BONUS:
            of the most cucked and degenerate countries in the christian world
            >>they are all, let me repeat that: THEY.ARE.ALL, majority protestant aren't they?
            ... You don't really know a lot about modern Spain or France, do you?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Spain isn't getting replaced and it's still a safe country. France is crypto-protestant since Henry IV. Ireland is doing better than England.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            And Austria better than Germany.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Spain also isn't a Catholic country. Even in the 1920s, less than 20% of peasants bothered to attend Sunday Mass. Franco had to herd people into church at gunpoint, and the second he died church attendance fell off a cliff lmao.
            Spain is a secular country, just like everyone else in Europe

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Spain isn't getting replaced and it's still a safe country. France is crypto-protestant since Henry IV. Ireland is doing better than England.

            Forgot to mention, it's the same case with Ireland kek. As soon as they ditched that Catholic theocracy bullshit they became first world.
            In case you forgot, Ireland legalized abortion and divorce and gay marriage by popular referendums.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >would have done the same
        >it never happened
        Hispanchistas are always between these two copes when it comes to Amerindian genocide.

        Good thing latinx america gets more indigenous every year. The future is bright.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >latinx

          Matate

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >latinx
            Glad you are leaving spanish heritage behind.

            Indigenization of latinx america will benefit everyone as a whole. Hispanchismo's death is imminent, good riddance.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >latinx
          Glad you are leaving spanish heritage behind.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            It was never yours you shit colored Indian. Even blacks LARPing as Egyptians isn't as pathetic as the descendants of brown conquered slaves worshipping the aristocracy of a long dead racial caste system.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Those conquistadores are still my ancestors. I am blessed with both oppressor and victim blood, I inherit the mantle while also getting to weep crocodile tears and fool white leftists into giving my the gibsmedats, until we die off and we take over.

            Don't worry though, we don't give a shit about black people. It'll be us in charge, whites and asians as model minorities and black people can go frick themselves, we don't owe them anything.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Please stop using up air.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          They aren't though. They will inter marry with whites and get whiter regardless of what they do. Why does nobody ever include women when accounting for genetics?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >polynesians
      proceeded to do jack shit in the new lands they've discovered
      >vikangz
      got genocided literally the second they landed
      also, weirdly enough, whenever these viKANGZ went they integrated into the local culture literally within a generation

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >peacefully trade with aboriginals without genociding everyone is doing nothing.
        >within 5 years of reaching the Indian Ocean Portuguese were raiding settlements and attacking Muslim pilgrims.
        Iberians are literally barbaric savage tier and deserve to be obliterated from the face of the Earth

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          muslims deserved it and much worse

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >got genocided literally the second they landed
        they weren't, they traded a bit and shipped cattle, in fact probably got driven out because of trading, probably indians got some illness from them or thought milk (common trade good) was poisonous cause they lacked lactose tolerancy, and probably freaked out.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The death toll of the Spanish conquest of America vary from 8 million to more than 100 million casualties.
      Yep those estimations are so reliable that the margin of error is above 1000% lmao. Also how can ~400 men kill dozens of millions of people?
      >inb4 they brought diseases from Europe
      They were nearly as vulnerable as the natives. There were some epidemics all around Europe even hundreds of years after the conquest.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Considering how many of them died from disease while exploring, it probably wasn't the most fun experience. I think the greatest adventures in history were those that Pioneers had during the early 19th century.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      on average the early conquistadors survived 10 years after landing in the continent

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Adventuring is never a very fun experience but it is a worthwhile one.

      https://i.imgur.com/9ZKKDNI.jpg

      Did they have the greatest adventure in history?

      Which ones? But yes. They probably did have one of the best

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yes

      Great doesn't mean fun.

      >die of disease on the ship
      >die of disease when you get there
      >die from getting speared by an aztec

      >never do anything
      >die anyway

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    For me? Its being captain cook

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Portuguese bandeirantes did. They pretty much all had harems of native women and were effectively a bunch of race mixing slave traders. Portuguese conquest of Brazil was far less brutal than Spanish conquests because natives there weren't as numerous and were on a far lower civilizational level than mesoamerican and Andean civilizations.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >natives there weren't as numerous and were on a far lower civilizational level than mesoamerican and Andean civilizations
      Wouldn't being less civilized make them more brutal?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No because they lived in scattered small villages and had very primitive weapons and tools compared to the natives Spanish encountered, so they were easy to deal with.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Be Ponce de leon
    >Go to find the fountain of youth
    >Die

    • 2 years ago
      Trollberg Lover

      >die
      He doesn't know

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There were a lot of adventures similar to these of greek myths but real

    >exotic tribes
    >mass scale seafaring
    >Epic poems written by many of the men that participated on these adventures
    >few men fighting entire kingdoms
    >expedition to find mythological sites (El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, Blemmyes, etc)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Epic poems written by many of the men that participated on these adventures
      Names?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        La Araucana, by Alonso de Ercilla, there are others but post independence goverments in our c**ts and specially the commies of the last 50 years, did everything possible to erase the footprint of the Castilians in our lands, attacking the arts, literature, historical records, etc.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Based "fértil provincia señalada/en la región Antártica famosa./De remotas nacionas respetada/por fuerte, principal y poderosa.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I dunno how it is in your country but in Peru there's a pretty based hispanic movement that protect statues of historical european figures everytime there's an indigenous march in Lima

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >castillian cross
            >over Inca imperial standard
            >we trad muhfugguh
            lmao

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            A lot of the Inca elite got transitioned into the new colony as part of the aristocracy actually, at least until B*livar came and abolished nobiliary titles.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >castillian cross
            >IQfy

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Burgundian did jack shit with this cross. Castillan sailed around the world, explored new lands, conquered continents and dominated European battlefields for more than a century with it. So yeah Cuckundian (actually larper because they're gallo-roman cucks larping as germanics) can go find themselves a new sign. Maybe an islamic one will do considering the demographic evolutions there.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Nothing wrong here. Normal Latinos understand that they're a mixed people. To reject Spanish or Indigenous heritage is to reject your mother and father.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Those would be considered "whites"/castizos in Peru, their normal latinos are indians in western clothes

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            In all my 22 years living in South America, I have literally only seen the term Castizo being used on IQfy kek
            Nobody here cares

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I really never understood contemporary Latin Americans who are unironically mad at Spain and see themselves as victims of Spain, as opposed to literally existing thanks to Spain.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Romanesque Spanish conquest of cities paved with gold in another land was as much fantasy to them as it sounds to us. I think the initial bands of conquistadors who landed there should be acknowledged as very brave. Too bad their administrations stagnated and got btfo later until they couldn't hold it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      And yet it lasted 4 centuries,, more than any other colonial empire

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The Portuguese colonial empire lasted until 2002. If anything, the Spanish empire was one of the first to collapse

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      yea, they passed from the most prosperous territories in America under spanish rule to some african cannibal shithole after being "liberated"

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's entirely the fault of Spanish colonial institutions failing to meld into the regionally specific post-colonial societies set up.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They had a good one, but Drake was even better. You could have a series of realistic movies about his adventures and it been a blockbuster.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >wearing all that shit in the jungle
    >including fricking wool
    no thanks. I wouldn't even wear that shit in Spain

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you couldve traded it for an alpaca or something

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Whenever I watch his movie I think of the countless morons who went out on their own to try to be Cortes and were never heard from again.

    Like imagine you think you will found a new city/civ/whatever and in your last moments, you're just thinking how badly you fricked up

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That be life. But you can always succeed.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Did they have the greatest adventure in history?
    Yes.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Names it the Pacific ocean
      >It isn't pacific at all
      ...

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Magellan was the one who named it Pacific. Before that it was called South Sea, which as you can see it's also incorrect.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it was a good one but I'd put Marco Polo's adventure, the Czech Legion, and the Anabasis above it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      > the Czech Legion
      ?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        it's actually the CzechoSlovak legion

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Marco Polo's adventure
      Literal made up bullshit.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >die of disease on the ship
    >die of disease when you get there
    >die from getting speared by an aztec

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it was Spaniards but not Conquistadors
    it was the group of around 18 men who completed the Magallanes trip and were the first to circumnavigate the planet
    Elcano and his surviving crew

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Most of them even successful ones like Cortez would end up either dead, imprisoned, or cast aside

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      So?

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    wait who took this picture?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Me

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i always liked aguirres right hand man. seems like a real bro and always had his back

    btw why did herzog and kinski remake aguirre with fitzcarraldo?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Why did a German make the same movie 3 times after it worked the first time

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >greatest adventure in history
    Imagine the insects, injury and disease carving your way through uncharted Caribbean hell

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Among the top 3 yes

    Also the Portuguese who circumnavigated Africa, conquered the Swahili, Arab, Persian and Muslim Indian and Indonesian towns in the Indian Ocean must have had a hell of an adventure

    Alexander and his men conquering the Balkans, Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, Bactria and arriving as far as India with their army

    Harald Hardada and his men that from Norway fought as far as in the Kievan Rus, Byzantium, Sicily, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Bulgaria, Denmark and finally England where he met his death in battle

    Other honorable mentions include Caesar's men who followed him to Gaul, Britan, then back to Italy, Merseille, the Balkans/Greece, Egypt, the Maghreb, Anatolia and Iberia

    Explorers such as Eudoxus of Cyzicus, Marco Polo, Odorico da Pordenone, Niccolò da Conti, Ludovico de Varthema, Ibn Battuta, Magellano, Francis Drake

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Harald Hardrada's entire life was pure kino
      >When he was fifteen years old, in 1030, Harald fought in the Battle of Stiklestad together with his half-brother Olaf Haraldsson (later Saint Olaf). Olaf sought to reclaim the Norwegian throne, which he had lost to the Danish king Cnut the Great two years prior. In the battle, Olaf and Harald were defeated by forces loyal to Cnut, and Harald was forced into exile to Kyivan Rus' (the sagas' Garðaríki). He thereafter spent some time in the army of Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise, eventually obtaining rank as a captain, until he moved on to Constantinople with his companions around 1034. In Constantinople, he soon rose to become the commander of the Byzantine Varangian Guard, and saw action on the Mediterranean Sea, in Asia Minor, Sicily, possibly in the Holy Land, Bulgaria and in Constantinople itself, where he became involved in the imperial dynastic disputes. Harald amassed considerable wealth during his time in the Byzantine Empire, which he shipped to Yaroslav in Kyivan Rus' for safekeeping. He finally left the Byzantines in 1042, and arrived back in Kyivan Rus' in order to prepare his campaign of reclaiming the Norwegian throne. Possibly to Harald's knowledge, in his absence the Norwegian throne had been restored from the Danes to Olaf's illegitimate son Magnus the Good.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >In 1046, Harald joined forces with Magnus's rival in Denmark (Magnus had also become king of Denmark), the pretender Sweyn II of Denmark, and started raiding the Danish coast. Magnus, unwilling to fight his uncle, agreed to share the kingship with Harald, since Harald in turn would share his wealth with him. The co-rule ended abruptly the next year as Magnus died, and Harald thus became the sole ruler of Norway. Domestically, Harald crushed all local and regional opposition, and outlined the territorial unification of Norway under a national governance. Harald's reign was probably one of relative peace and stability, and he instituted a viable coin economy and foreign trade. Probably seeking to restore Cnut's "North Sea Empire", Harald also claimed the Danish throne, and spent nearly every year until 1064 raiding the Danish coast and fighting his former ally, Sweyn. Although the campaigns were successful, he was never able to conquer Denmark.

        >Not long after Harald had renounced his claim to Denmark, the former Earl of Northumbria, Tostig Godwinson, brother of the newly chosen (but reigning not for long) English king Harold Godwinson (also known as Harold of Wessex), pledged his allegiance to Harald and invited him to claim the English throne. Harald went along and invaded Northern England with 10,000 troops and 300 longships in September 1066, raided the coast and defeated English regional forces of Northumbria and Mercia in the Battle of Fulford near York on 20 September 1066. Although initially successful, Harald was defeated and killed in a surprise attack by Harold Godwinson's forces in the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September 1066, which wiped out almost his entire army. Modern historians have often considered Harald's death, which brought an end to his invasion, as the end of the Viking Age.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You may enjoy this video, it's about the adventure of a Franciscan Friar who webt to the the Khan. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ge6eLofP4Y

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    if they mixed with only natives and not blacks. Bleaching process would've went by far quicker.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There was no bleaching process, at least not in the colonial era, in places like Mexico and Peru at least mestizos only became the majority after the spaniards got kicked out, before that injuns were still the majority and their languages were still widely spoken in the early 19th century

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This was Europe's history greatest mistake ever.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yea it's brutal. Europeans need to keep migrating or donating sperm and bleach up the place.

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Lmao the seethe this thread produce.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nobody cares about your shithole empire and you're a brown Indian pretending to be Spanish.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This picture is so vril. Feel free to save this lads its all yours

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    dfsdfs

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Arabs

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    we really are one people? I have home with my latino/hispanic people? Me no alone no more? I can become brown pride race supremacist?

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    semen españooool

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >t. Malinche

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    1959, David Gordon.
    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24091/24091-h/24091-h.htm

    You're welcome, and bless all your hearts.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This better not bait and switch me.

      [...]
      Indigenization of latinx america will benefit everyone as a whole. Hispanchismo's death is imminent, good riddance.

      2 more weeks bro.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >be 18, go on expedition to the New World
    >half the expedition dies of disease and famine
    >doesn't matter, keep going on expeditions
    >literally every time half or more the expedition dies, either from disease or native ambushes
    >couple years later, enlist into new expedition of Hernan Cortes right after coming back from the latest disaster
    >Cortes and his 400 boys roam around Mexico, playing mindgames with natives telling them to stop sacrificing people or his cannons will get angry
    >moron natives keep listening to their shamans telling them to attack at night because then the Spaniards don't have any power
    >lose every time
    >natives grow tired and "sacrifice" their shamans for giving bad advice
    >many natives ally with the Spaniards in hopes of getting under the fist of Aztec Emperor Montezuma
    >Montezuma tells his men to kill the Spaniards, then sikes them and pulls back the order, then double sikes and orders to kill again, then triple sikes and invites Spaniards to the capital in peace
    >get to capital, described as greater than Rome and Venice, Spaniards staying armed and prepared 100% of the time
    >meet Emperor Montezuma himself, have private conversations
    >make friends with him
    >he gifts you a wife described as "very pretty for an Indian"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Cortes haters mad at him for doing cool shit in Mexico
      >send 1100 men to arrest him
      >Cortes takes 200 men and beats them, convinces them to join him
      >meanwhile some Spanish captain kills a bunch of dancing natives because he thought he was about to be sacrificed
      >back at capital, seething natives kill Montezuma
      >tfw in a city filled with tens of thousands of people throwing rocks and spears
      >make narrow escape, maybe about 500 Spaniards and some Chadcalan allies make it out, lose most of the gold
      >encounter massive Aztec amry
      >Aztecs think it's easy win
      >Aztecs don't know horses
      >multiple cavalry charges (no more than a hundred horses) make way for Spanish and native footsoldiers to cut down the Aztecs
      >Aztecs too focussed on capturing people to sacrifice instead of killing them right away
      >Cortes assumes correctly that killing the Aztec captains would make their men falter and flee

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >regroup, assemble massive army with tens of thousands native allies
        >besiege the capital
        >months of battle every day, Spanish sleep in their armour as always, maybe a few hours at best before having to wake up and fight
        >see comrades taken alive, sacrificed on elevated place visible for the entire city
        >their faces cut off, killed with as much blood as possible
        >Aztecs employ psychological warfare, telling the split up Spaniards the men in the other camps had died already
        >after gruelling months of fighting and attrition, Aztecs surrender the city
        >tens of thousands of corpses floating in the canals
        >native allies rape and pillage the city
        >plant Spanish flags on top of the city's high point

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >end up no richer than before because Cortes kept making up bullshit reasons for him to get more gold while his men stay poor
          >later, go on YET ANOTHER expedition with Cortes
          >Chadscobal de Olid, Cortes' former captain and known for valour in combat, was sent to conquer Honduras but had rebelled and claimed the land as his own
          >a slog that takes years, deep into Honduras, Cortes is thought dead because he's gone for so long
          >never even get to de Olid who is killed in the meantime
          >still get no real riches or success from the expedition
          >even long after, never sleep for more than a few hours, preferably not in a comfy bed because it was so ingrained
          >be made governor of city in Guatemala
          >see that most of the credit is given to Cortes and most historians get all the facts wrong
          >write what happened to set the score straight and honour your conquistadore bros
          >live to be 92
          such was the life of Bernal Diaz

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