Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Francisco Pizarro, Marquess of the Atabillos (/ p ɪ ˈ z ɑːr oʊ /; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko piˈθaro]; c. 16 March 1478 – 26 June 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
Francisco Pizarro (1509–10) 4th voyage of Christopher Columbus, who touched upon later named after him Colombian, now Panamanian lands where he encountered the Kuna people (1502–04) Map of exploration routes of Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1513) Francisco Pizarro Martín Fernández de Enciso Map of exploration routes of
Francisco Pizarro: Ecuador and Brazil. Length of the Amazon River. 1531–1534 Francisco de Orellana: Canada, Saint Lawrence River: 1534–1542 Jacques Cartier: Colombia, Conquest of the Muisca: 1536–1537 Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada: Pacific Ocean's Volta do Mar (Asia to the Americas) 1564–1565 Andrés de Urdaneta: Galápagos Islands, Rapa ...
Francisco Pizarro's route of exploration during the conquest of Peru (1531–1533) A first attempt to explore western South America was undertaken in 1522 by Pascual de Andagoya. Native South Americans told him about a gold-rich territory on a river called Pirú.
The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, also known as the Conquest of Peru, was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.After years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes, 168 Spanish soldiers under conquistador Francisco Pizarro, along with his brothers in arms and their indigenous allies, captured the last Sapa Inca, Atahualpa, at the ...
Main explorers and conquistadors; Columbus (1502) Alonso de Heredia, Francisco Pizarro (1509–10) Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Francisco Pizarro, Pedro Arias Dávila (1513) Francisco Pizarro, Pascual de Andagoya, Diego de Almagro, Bartolomé Ruiz (1515–29)
Francisco Pizarro had children with more than 40 women, many of whom were ñusta. The chroniclers Pedro Cieza de León, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Diego Durán, Juan de Castellanos and friar Pedro Simón wrote about the Americas. Francisco Pizarro meets with the Inca emperor Atahualpa, 1532
The other great conquest was of the Inca Empire (1531–35), led by Francisco Pizarro. Spanish historical and territorial presence in North America. During the early period of exploration, conquest, and settlement, c. 1492–1550, the overseas possessions claimed by Spain were only loosely controlled by the crown.