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conquistadores

  1. The Spanish military leaders who established Spanish rule in the New World by overthrowing Native American governments. ( See Hernando °ä´Ç°ù³Ùé²õ and Francisco Pizarro .)


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Peru's largest archaeological sites are located outside Lima in places such as Cusco, which was the capital of the Inca Empire and fell to Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century.

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López Obrador has accused Spanish companies of acting like “conquistadores†in Mexico, by using advantageous contract terms to avoid paying the cost of transmission for their power.

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They threw together a mining camp they called Eldoradoville, named for the mythic golden king and kingdom of the questing Spanish conquistadores.

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Spanish conquistadores wrote about seeing such racks in the 1520s, and some Spaniards’ heads even wound up on them.

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The world-changing battle started on May 22, 1521, and lasted for months until the city finally fell to the conquistadores on Aug. 13.

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