Conquistador
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Conquistadors or conquistadores were Spanish and Portuguese colonists who explored, traded with, and conquered many parts of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania during the Age of Discovery. Sailin
Depiction of a conquistador, Alberto del Canto
The conquest of Colorado, by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, depicting Coronado's 1540–1542 expedition
Ponce de León and his explorers in Florida searching for the Fountain of Youth
Landing of Columbus by John Vanderlyn, 1847. Christopher Columbus and his Spanish crew making their first landfall in the Americas in 1492
Hidalgo (nobility)
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A hidalgo or a fidalgo is a member of the Spanish or Portuguese nobility; the feminine forms of the terms are hidalga, in Spanish, and fidalga, in Portuguese and Galician. Legally, a hidalgo is a nobl
Conquistador
…the New World under the dominion of Spain and Portugal. After Christopher Columbus's arrival in the West Indies in 1492, the Spaniards, usually led by hidalgos from the west and south of Spain, began building a colonial empire in the Caribbean using colonies such as Santo Domingo, Cuba, and Puerto Rico as their…
17th-century French illustration of a hidalgo in Spanish America with a Black servant