conquistador in English

noun
1
a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
In order to encourage social acceptance of such unions, Anglos claimed that elite Mexican women were the racially pure descendants of the Spanish conquistadores .

Use "conquistador" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "conquistador" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "conquistador", or refer to the context using the word "conquistador" in the English Dictionary.

1. The conquistador of Peru was laid to rest in the Lima Cathedral.

2. The Spanish 17th-century Musketeer (Conquistador) is the only armored infantry shooter in the whole game.

3. Definition of Conquistador The word conquistador comes from Spanish and means "he who conquers." The Conquistadors were those men who took up arms to conquer, subjugate, and convert native populations in the New World. Who Were the Conquistadors?

4. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés slew Emperor Cuauhtémoc and installed puppet rulers who became vassals for Spain.

5. If educated people without conquistador bloodlines can never rise far, it is no use giving scholarships.

6. Narratives surrounding the Spanish conquest of the Americas and Conquistadors are heavily Eurocentric, and the sources are somewhat limited.But who exactly were the conquistador s, …

7. Conquistador, (Spanish: “conqueror”) plural conquistadores or Conquistadors, any of the leaders in the Spanish conquest of America, especially of Mexico and Peru, in the 16th century.

8. The 16th-century Spanish conquistador and explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) helped establish the first stable settlement on the South American continent at …

9. Hernando Arias de Saavedra of Spanish descent, often called "the last conquistador" was the first man born in the New World to govern a Spanish territory

10. The Cuirassier is replaced by the following unique units: Conquistador (Spain) The following units can be upgraded to Cuirassier: Knight Cataphract (Byzantine) War Elephant This unit marks the transition from melee to gunpowder-based cavalry

11. Noun winner, champion, master, victor, conquistador, lord Spain had a tradition of learning long before the arrival of their Muslim Conquerors. Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition

12. It lies in a fertile valley on the eastern slopes of the Andean Cordillera Occidental at an elevation of 9,007 feet (2,746 metres) above sea level and has a pleasant and invigorating climate. Ayacucho was founded in 1539 by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro and called Huamanga until 1825.

13. Cotres would use individual small scale raids to slowly damage and burn Tenochtitlan piece by piece: known that the Aztecs would simply outnumber his forces in a conventional battle. This mistake was made by the Conquistador general Pedro de Alvarado during the invasion, making him lose many of his men when attempting to invade the city from

14. Arias Settlers in United States in the 16th Century Hernando Arias de Saavedra, of Spanish descent, often called "the last conquistador," was the first man born in the New World to govern a Spanish territory: he was Governor and Captain-General of the La Plata region in the late 1500s, and he established Paraguay's virtual independence from

15. This is a list of Conquistadors who were active in the conquest of terrains that presently belong to Colombia.The nationalities listed refer to the state the conquistador was born into; Granada and Castile are currently part of Spain, but were separate states at the time of birth of the early Conquistadors.

16. Principal Translations: Inglés: Español: Conquering adj adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house." ([sb] who conquers) (quien conquista)conquistador nm nombre masculino: Sustantivo de género exclusivamente masculino, que lleva los artículos el o un en

17. Vasco Núñez de Balboa, (born 1475, Jerez de los Caballeros, or Badajoz, Extremadura province, Castile—died January 12, 1519, Acla, near Darién, Panama), Spanish conquistador and explorer, who was head of the first stable settlement on the South American continent (1511) and who was the first European to sight the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean (on September 25 [or 27], 1513, from “a …