Francisco Pizarro
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Francisco Pizarro, Marquess of the Atabillos was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
Portrait of Francisco Pizarro by Amable-Paul Coutan, 1835
Francisco Pizarro's route of exploration during the conquest of Peru (1531–1533)
Pizarro and his followers in Lima in 1535
Pizarro meets with the Inca Emperor Atahualpa, 1532
Conquistador
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Conquistadors or conquistadores was a term used to refer to Spanish and Portuguese colonialists of the early modern period. During the Age of Discovery, conquistadors sailed beyond Iberian Peninsula to the Americas, Oceania, Africa and Asia, establishing new colonies and trade routes. They brought much of the "New World" under the dominion of Spain and Portugal.
Hernán Cortés led the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and expanded the Spanish Empire in the Americas
Ponce de León and his explorers in Florida searching for the Fountain of Youth
Christopher Columbus and his Spanish crew making their first landfall in the Americas in 1492
Hernando de Soto and Spanish conquistadors seeing the Mississippi River for the first time.