The old slaver -- The conquest of paradise -- The capture of the sun god -- Cuzco -- The siege of the holy city -- The death of Almagro -- The frontiers of New Castile -- Marqués of the Indies -- The ...
500 years ago, two worlds met: utterly alien, unknown, unsuspected to one another. Three men decisively shaped that encounter and its legacy for succeeding generations. In this final lecture, Pizarro ...
A onetime swineherd, cruel Francisco Pizarro, conquered the Incas and in 1535 founded the city of Lima. After laying out a great square, which he called the Plaza de Armas, he placed the cornerstone ...
Gonzalo Pizarro was a Spanish Conquistador and a half-brother to Francisco Pizarro. His life is a story of controversy and conquest. Gonzalo Pizarro was born in 1510 in Spain and his life was marked ...
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