conquistador
Example Sentences
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A new take on the Dark Knight comic book hero that faces off against conquistador Hernán Cortés.
From Los Angeles Times
Sporting a conquistador moustache and thighs as thick as a gaucho's steak, the culture shock was severe when the Argentina wing arrived at Harlequins.
From BBC
Though the conquistadors enjoyed superior technology, including steel weapons and gunpowder, European diseases such as smallpox and measles proved more decisive, taking untold millions of indigenous lives.
Landing in Peru in 1531, during the Inca Civil War, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro found the Inca Road an ideal conduit for seizing the empire and draining it of its treasure.
The FBI has returned a 500-year-old stolen document signed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés to Mexico.
From BBC
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