What led Extremadurans to take a leading role in the conquest of Spain's territories in the Americas?
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For many years, the Extremadura region was the border region between Christian and Moorish Spain. As a result, their inhabitants were quite literally "living at the edge." Hence they produced the largest number of "desperado" type conquerors.
It's like saying that America's most renowned Indian fighters (e.g. Buffalo Bill Cody or George A. Custer) were products of the American frontier, rather than the Atlantic seaboard. Or that the most renowned Mexico fighters like Davy Crockett were Texans.
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I have been travelling in Extremadura for the past 5 days. What strikes me is the large number of rivers, some surprisingly large in June, most navigable. ALS remember the Romans took the trouble to come here overland and of course the Moors and the Castilians marched and counter marched this terrain for centuries. A theory I will advance is that after the conquest of Granada in1492 ( note the year) a lot of reconquistadors went home to the north. The more local Extremadurans might then have been closer to the new action and more tempted to try the 'new thing' than their more comfortable cousins who had gone back to the north and needed to hang about court to make sure they stayed in favour.
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