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Francisco Pizarro

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire · Spain · Historical Figures · Lived 1478 to 1541 · aged 63

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The conquistador who brought down the Inca Empire with fewer than two hundred men - then had his prisoner fill a room with gold before executing him anyway.

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  1. Friends and comrades! on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side, ease and pleasure.

    1527, Speech to his followers before the expedition to Peru (1527), quoted in William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru With a, Own words

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Born around 1478 to pig farmers in Trujillo, Pizarro left Spain for the New World and crossed the Isthmus of Panama with Balboa, becoming among the first Europeans to see the Pacific from the Americas. After two failed expeditions and a stint as mayor of Panama City, he secured crown permission in 1529 for a third attempt on Peru. He moved inland during an Inca civil war, founded San Miguel de Piura, then captured Emperor Atahualpa at Cajamarca in November 1532 using Spanish guns and cavalry. Atahualpa filled a room with gold to the highest point he could reach as ransom; Pizarro took it, charged him with crimes, and had him garrotted in July 1533. He entered Cuzco that year, founded Lima in 1535, and was assassinated in 1541 amid the power struggles his conquest had set in motion.

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Lived 1478 to 1541 · aged 63

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