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- noun Plural form of
conquistador .
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Examples
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It has been very cogently argued that the population living in the New World at the time of Conquest was probably genotypically less diffuse (therefore, more pure?) than the explorers and conquistadors from the Iberian Peninsula who were of a genetic mixture composed of elements from Africa, the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, northern Europe and the Basque country.
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It is not surprising, then, if large-scale violence and enslavement have been on the agenda, as they were in the period of the "transition," with the difference that today the conquistadors are the officers of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, who are still preaching the worth of a penny to the same populations which the dominant world powers have for centuries robbed and pauperized.
Counago & Spaves 2008
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It is not surprising, then, if large-scale violence and enslavement have been on the agenda, as they were in the period of the "transition," with the difference that today the conquistadors are the officers of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, who are still preaching the worth of a penny to the same populations which the dominant world powers have for centuries robbed and pauperized.
Counago & Spaves 2008
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The Queensland 'conquistadors' have already captured the silverware from the Byron Bay Cup, the Newmarket and the Rousillon.
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The potato is such a staple today that few who enjoy it realize that it was known only in Latin America until conquistadors returning to Spain introduced it to their countrymen.
Single Servings Aram Bakshian Jr. 2011
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The collapse of the Aztec and Incan kingdoms was expedited by the introduction of smallpox by Old World conquistadors.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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Forty-one years later, conquistadors Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco de Orellana dared the rainforest in search of El Dorado, the fabled land of gold, only to encounter starvation and violence at the hands of the indigenous tribes.
The Last Tribes Standing Gerard Helferich 2011
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Follow in the hoof prints of the conquistadors on a 10-day ride up to five hours a day past the glacial lake at Humantay and through passionfruit orchards in the Santa Teresa valley, following the Salkantay and Llactapata Inca trails.
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Kukulcan was really one of the Spanish conquistadors who nearly wiped them out.
Maya Doomsday 2010
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The collapse of the Aztec and Incan kingdoms was expedited by the introduction of smallpox by Old World conquistadors.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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