an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)
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conquistador
How to use conquistador in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for conquistador.
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How much of it came from the Spanish inquisition/conquistador culture?
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Quick take
an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for conquistador.
noun
an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)
Example sentences
How much of it came from the Spanish inquisition/conquistador culture?
How many people currently have the "adventurer" or "conquistador" plan?
Sounds like the kind of story a tour guide would tell tourists who skew more blond-and-blue-eyed than the typical Spanish conquistador.
But for the vast majority of the account, the conquistadors are explaining to the locals that they are warriors who serve a king that lives across the ocean, and the locals understand that.
Probably similar to how the Spanish conquistador's precious metals haul from the New World decimated the economy of Spain: massive supply/demand imbalance.
To put things into perspective for those not familiar with the book, the character Francisco is supposed to one of the world's richest men having inherited a mining fortune from his conquistador ancestors.
He admits that the conquistadors slaughtered non-military people for all sorts of reasons, took women as "wives" from conquered people, killed people just for believing in a different religion, lied and backstabbed, stole any valuables they could find.
The conquistador heirs, oil barons and philosopher pirates in Atlas Shrugged make so much more sense as parody of how the 'self-made man' tends to accumulate wealth than in a parable about the ills of not enough capitalism
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How do you use conquistador in a sentence?
How much of it came from the Spanish inquisition/conquistador culture?
What does conquistador mean?
an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)
What part of speech is conquistador?
conquistador is commonly used as noun.