conquistadores 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 .

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1. Spanish conquistadores arrived in the 16th century but did not fully defeat the Maya.

2. FROM the time of the Spanish conquistadores, Catholicism has had a religious stranglehold on South America.

3. There are also accounts of captured Conquistadores being sacrificed during the wars of the Spanish invasion of Mexico.

4. 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.

5. Coveted definition, wrongfully or inordinately desired:Pizarro led a party of conquistadores in an attempt to discover El Dorado—the source of the Coveted gold of the Incas

6. Enjoy a splendid supper while discovering the Guadalquivir, the great, ageless, romantic and legendary river, the river of the conquistadores who went to America and the only navigable river in Spain.