Spanish conquest of Nicaragua | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-02

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Spanish conquest of Nicaragua


00:01:09 1 Geography
00:03:05 1.1 Climate
00:03:52 2 Nicaragua before the conquest
00:06:11 2.1 Native weapons and tactics
00:06:34 3 Background to the conquest
00:08:57 4 Conquistadors
00:10:32 4.1 Spanish weapons and armour
00:12:02 4.2 Role of the Church
00:13:19 5 Discovery of Nicaragua, 1519–1523
00:14:42 5.1 Departure of Andrés Niño and Gil González Dávila
00:16:31 5.2 Exploration of the Pacific coast
00:17:31 5.3 Expedition inland
00:19:28 5.4 Opposition and retreat
00:22:11 6 Rival plans, 1523
00:23:57 7 Hernández de Córdoba in western Nicaragua, 1523–1525
00:26:56 7.1 Dispute with Honduras, 1524–1525
00:30:40 7.2 Intrigue in Nicaragua, late 1525
00:32:01 8 Pedrarias Dávila in western Nicaragua, 1526–1529
00:34:59 9 Central Highlands, 1530–1603
00:35:55 10 Fringes of empire: Eastern Nicaragua
00:38:44 11 Legacy of the conquest
00:39:49 12 Historical sources
00:41:25 13 See also
00:41:37 14 Footnotes



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The Spanish conquest of Nicaragua was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the natives of the territory now incorporated into the modern Central American republic of Nicaragua during the colonisation of the Americas. Before European contact in the early 16th century, Nicargua was inhabited by a number of indigenous peoples. In the west, these included Mesoamerican groups such as the Chorotega, the Nicarao, and the Subtiaba. Other groups included the Matagalpa and the Tacacho.
Gil González Dávila first entered what is now Nicaragua in 1522, with the permission of Pedrarias Dávila, governor of Castilla de Oro (modern Panama) but was driven back to his ships by the Chorotega. In 1524, a new expedition led by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba founded the Spanish towns of León and Granada. The western portions of Nicaragua along the Pacific littoral plain received the brunt of the Spanish activity in the territory for the next three decades. Within a century of the conquest, the native inhabitants had been all but eliminated due to war, disease, and exportation as slaves.