Pizarro

Examples

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• In 1532, the Spanish conquistador Pizarro led an expedition that ultimately conquered the Inca Empire.

• In Peru, Francisco Pizarro, like Cortes, used treachery, terrorism, and negotiation to conquer the Inka Empire in three years.

  Fiction book (1992)

• "I have come to take their gold away from them," said Pizarro.

  Fiction book (1991)

• At Kusko, Francisco Pizarro started to panic.

• And all that Inca gold that Pizarro took out of Peru.

  The Deep (1977)

• When the boat shipwrecked off the coast of San Sebastian, they were rescued by Francisco Pizarro.

  Academic text (2007)

• A large expedition of Spanish adventurers, led by Pizarro, set off from the Peruvian sierras in late 1560.

  Academic text (1993)

• The history of Peru is a lamentable story of consecutive defeats, a history that began a good four and a half centuries ago, in 1532, when Pizarro and 150 soldiers initiated the conquest of an empire, albeit divided by internal rivalries and a civil war, of ten million people.

  Academic text (1994)

• The treasures of the Inca Empire attracted Pizarro and his fellow conquistadors in their quest for wealth.

Synonyms

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Francisco Pizarro

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A Spanish soldier and leader who took control of the Inca Empire and founded Lima

is the shorter form used for the same historical figure

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Etymology