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- Conquistadors conquered more people with European diseases than with their weapons.
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The spoils of a conquest that the country had long ago forgotten, and that some conquistador had failed to tell his children about.
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conquistador = a Spanish word meaning someone who conquers other people -- especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century
- Then try to imagine: If the Spanish Conquistadors did not intervene, what would have been the influence of that civilization on human history?† (source)
- The rats that brought the bubonic plague to Europe, the conquistadors who brought smallpox to the Native Americans.† (source)
- My theory is that the god of thunder Huracan always acts up around the holiday of the Conquistador, who killed off all his Taino devotees.† (source)
- His heart had been heavy since we came to the town, the second figure spoke, his forefathers were men of the sea, the Marez people, they were conquistadors, men whose freedom was unbounded.† (source)
- That's how the Aztecs described Cortes and the conquistadors when they arrived at Tenochtitlan.† (source)
- They were not like the conquistadors who preceded them.† (source)
- My great-great-something-something-grandfather was a conquistador.† (source)
- His entries were always dramatic, and he always conducted his inspections with the flair and panache of a benevolent conquistador.† (source)
- Perhaps, I could conquer this jewel as El Conquistador conquered our island!† (source)
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- The Conquistadors who invaded the Americas were nothing more than murderers and robbers.† (source)
- "One of the ghosts on the balcony was wearing conquistador armor," Nico recalled.† (source)
- David, what do conquistadors have to do with anything?† (source)
- After the toast, the Spanish ambassador presents this illustrious descendant of the great Conquistador with yet another medal.† (source)
- Then he puts her right side up and laughs a great big Conquistador laugh that comes all the way from the green, motherland hills of Spain.† (source)
- Behind her, the second-story balconies of her family house were crowded with glowing figures: a man with a forked beard and rusted conquistador armor; another bearded man in eighteenth-century pirate clothes, his shirt peppered with gunshot holes; a lady in a bloody nightgown; a U.S. Navy captain in his dress whites; and a dozen more Reyna knew from her childhood—all of them glaring at her accusingly, their voices whispering in her mind: Traitor.† (source)
- German-speaking Spanish conquistador was overshadowed by a near-total lack of plot, character development, intelligible dialogue, etc. In hindsight, we probably should have used less footage of Cat Stevens flipping out and attacking one of us.† (source)
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