Similar words: francisco franco, san francisco, san francisco bay, francis bacon, francophone, bizarre, telescopic, endoscopic. Meaning: n. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541).
1. In 1531, Francisco Pizarro overthrew the Incan empire, removing the emperor from his throne and taking for Spain the Incan imperial treasures.
2. Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador who destroyed the Inca Empire in the course of his conquest of Peru.
3. Many Spaniards who helped Francisco Pizarro conquer the Incas were fortune-seekers, not soldiers, "so the absence of sword injuries makes some sense," Murphy explains.
4. The Inca Empire was discovered by a Spanish conquistador called Francisco Pizarro, accompanied by about 169 Spanish soldiers.
5. Eight months later, they executed their royal captive, and in 1533 their leader, Francisco Pizarro, picked a young prince, Manco Inca Yupanqui, to rule as a puppet king.
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