10 sentences with 'conquistadors'
Example sentences and phrases with the word conquistadors and other words derived from it.
• « The Reconquista was not completed until 1492, the same year that Columbus sailed in search of a western route to Asia, and many of the Spanish conquistadors who later invaded South and Central America had gained their military experience from what they saw as the holy wars against the Muslim inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula. »
• « The conquistadors of the Americas were generally poor nobles with few prospects in Spain; in the first generation of explorers many were essentially unemployed gentlemen. »
• « Some conquistadors simply launched expeditions to the New World without royal authorisation, hoping to seize enough booty to receive retroactive royal approval. »
• « When the Europeans arrived at the time of the conquest and colonisation, the aboriginal population was very scarce in Argentina. Most of them adapted and mixed with the conquistadors, forming an important part of the population, which lives mainly in the northern, western and central provinces of the country. »
• « However, these stories are based on the conquistadors' efforts to secure royal favour by writing proofs of merit. »
• « Spain's drive to expand its empire led other hopeful conquistadors to push further into the Americas, hoping to replicate the success of Cortés and Pizarro. »
• « Spain granted encomiendas - legal rights to native labour - to conquistadors who could prove their service to the crown. »
• « This system reflected the Spanish vision of colonisation: the king rewarded successful conquistadors who expanded the empire. »
• « Some native peoples who had sided with the conquistadors, such as the Tlaxcalteca, were also granted encomiendas; Malintzin, the Nahua woman who helped Cortés defeat the Mexica, was granted one. »