Discovery of the Americas, 1492-1800
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The Spanish conquistadores were both explorers and conquerors, but some weremoredevoted to one role than the other. One who was ...
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Castile and governed by Pizarro, an entitle- ment to which his partner Almagro would later violently object. From the start of h ...
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unharmed, but between 2,000 and 10,000 unarmed Incas, including all the chief admin- istrators of the empire, were killed in a s ...
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Pizarro, Peru, and South America B 73 ...
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Almagro’ sseverely tested expedition arrived at Cuzco empty-handed in early 1537 tofind the Pizarros fighting a widespread Inca ...
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ordered Orellana to return in a few days would later be disputed. Regardless, Orellana now commanded perhaps the greatest explor ...
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crew assumed the other was lost, but after rounding Trinidad, they were reunited on Sep- tember 11, 1542, at Cubagua, a small is ...
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca came to the New World as a conquistador, but left transformed by his travels among the Native people ...
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