Hernan Cortes was he a conqueror or invader or an explorer?

Answer 1

If we judge him by modern conventions, he was a raider, thief and mass murderer. However, in his day, that was all considered part of the process of discovery.

Answer 2

Hernan was all of these. Throw in pirate, politician and profiteer and you come close!
Originally, Cortez served as some kind of minor tax official in Cuba. He was commissioned (or pestered for a commission, depending on the account) to do a coastal survey, but he kind of went off the leash when he reached the Yucatan Peninsula.
With just a few hundred men, a hundred horses, a handful of harquebuses, and the fierceness of rabid weasels, Cortez and his men (including Pedro Alvarez - his often overlooked lieutenant) took advantage of the unstable and weakened Aztec empire to foment a general rebellion among subject peoples of the coast. Stiffened by the apparently invincible (and certainly smelly) Spaniards, and aided by the host of diseases he unwittingly visited upon the natives that raced ahead of his army, he first surrounded, then destroyed the great city of the Mexica-Azteca, the ruins of which are still being unearthed today below Mexico City, to the ooohs and aaahs of the media (check out Ahuizotl's tomb that was uncovered recently).
After his de facto conquests were recognized by the Spanish king and while the gold continued to flow between the New and Old Worlds, Cortez was Captain-General, Governor of New Spain (which on his own maps stretched from Argentina to New York City).
An amazing and daring, and treacherous and cupiditous, and brave and lucky, man.

Answer 3

Well he's a person who started that messed up thing, he's to blame for that Though to be honest I find anyone who does that to living being is evil whether he's did it to another country or not. It was really inhuman of that man. I'm saying this even from a mostly European Mexican as myself. What the Spanish did was messed up though, even the English were surprised. Though there is -one- very important Spanish (criollo) man to thank for everything. He was a priest who started the Independence or may a break to make it big. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. He had enough of what they were doing. Even Hernan's son Martin had to do something with it too. Though some Spanish did something, it was not becuase of the natives, it was because the criollos weren't considered as high as a native born Spaniard. [Criollo-Spaniard born in Mexico] Not all of them though but a lot. Though the levels you were talking about is messed up as well. I mean there are some Mexicans who think that and its horrible to think something like that. What I notice in their Novellas is that the blond white person is like worshiped while the Native is like a maid. It doesn't happen all the time but is still pretty cliche.

Answer 4

If my historic mind serves me right Hernan de Cortez was an officer in the Spanish army who commisioned to explore the open seas for lands and riches in the name of Isabela and Ferdinand of Spain. The way u spelled his name would suggest he might have been A Portuguese explorer and that too may be correct and in that case Hernan Cortes sailed for Portugal's Royals insted of Spain's. In either case do a Google search that should help.

Answer 5

He was a conqueror, no problem. But he was a brutal man a killer and obsessed by gold and making himself reach destroying an ancient civilization

Answer 6

Invader

Answer 7

He was an exploiter of people and vunerable cultures however if we were around at that time we'd probably do the same it was a completely different world then.

Answer 8

He was all those things but mostly a self interested thief

Answer 9

All three

Answer 10

It depends on your point of view.