What were the Spanish soldiers who fought in the conquests i

What were the Spanish soldiers who fought in the conquests in the New World called?

Solution

The Spanish conquest of Yucatán was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities in the Yucatán Peninsula, a vast limestone plain covering south-eastern Mexico, northern Guatemala, and all of Belize.

They were called \"conquistadores\"