(1) Their effectiveness, however, was limited by the opposition of the conquistadores .(2) For a millennium before the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the early sixteenth century, great cities flourished close to what is now the lively Peruvian coastal city of Chiclayo, as they did elsewhere in Peru.(3) The Spanish conquistadors encountered the highly evolved Inca Empire when they invaded Peru at the beginning of the sixteenth century.(4) We know more about the Incas than their Andean predecessors because of their fateful contact with the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century.(5) I remember my first few assignments analyzing journals written by conquistadors and sixteenth-century mariners involved in the African slave trade.(6) When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in South America in the 16th century, the giant vulture was a common sight.(7) The application of science, especially new technology, to the means of production, communication, and coercion, gave Europe a penetrative capacity far in excess of anything available to merchant venturers and conquistadors .(8) Soon enough, the Spanish Crown would need an enormous amount of ingenuity and resources to keep such competitors out of the profitable pilfering operation mounted by a handful of conquistadors in the Indies.(9) Peruvian cuisine has had many influences - from Indians and Spanish conquistadors , who made Lima their South American capital, to waves of Italian, Chinese, African and Japanese immigrants.(10) But during the 1520s Spanish conquistadors , fresh from the conquest of Mexico, invaded the land of the Pipil.(11) Controlling an empire that included modern Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and parts of Chile and Argentina, the conquistadores fell to fighting among themselves.(12) The Spaniards knew that they could not take on the whole Aztec Empire since they were so many compared to the number of conquistadors .(13) There is a beautiful filmed reconstruction of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, one of the biggest and most magnificent cities in the world before the Spanish conquistadors tore it down to build Mexico City.(14) Yet wine is an inescapable part of the landscape too, ever since the Spanish conquistadores started planting their first vines in the 16th century.(15) In order to encourage social acceptance of such unions, Anglos claimed that elite Mexican women were the racially pure descendants of the Spanish conquistadores .(16) And they were here for less than a century before they fled the Spanish conquistadors who arrived in Peru in 1532.
