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A Conquistador (Spanish: [kon.kis.t̪a'ğ̞oɾ]) (English: Conqueror) was a Spanish soldier, explorer and adventurer who took part in the gradual invasion and conquering of much of the Americas and Asia Pacific, bringing them under Spanish colonial rule between the 15th and 19th centuries.

References

Conquistador may also refer to:
  • Conquistador (novel), an alternate history novel by S. M. Stirling
  • Conquistadores, Volume 22 of the Manga Bleach
  • Conquistador (game)

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Writing system: Latin (Spanish variant)
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Writing system: Latin (English variant) 
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
ISO 639-3: eng  
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Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World consisting of the continents of North America[1] and South America with their associated islands and regions. The Americas cover 8.3% of the Earth's total surface area (28.
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Asia-Pacific generally applies to littoral East Asia, Southeast Asia and Australasia near the Pacific Ocean, plus the states in the ocean itself (Oceania).

Although an imprecise geographical descriptor, the term Asia-Pacific became popular from the late 1980s as the
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Motto
"Plus Ultra"   (Latin)
"Further Beyond"
Anthem
"Marcha Real" 1
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15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500.

Events

  • 1402: Ottoman and Timurid Empires fight at the Battle of Ankara resulting in Timur's capture of Bayezid I.
  • 1402: The conquest of the Canary Islands signals the beginning of the Spanish Empire.

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The 19th Century (also written XIX century) lasted from 1801 through 1900 in the Gregorian calendar. It is often referred to as the "1800s.
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The Spanish colonization of the Americas began with the arrival in the Western Hemisphere of Christopher Columbus in 1492. From early small settlements in the Caribbean, the Spanish Empire gradually expanded over four centuries to include Central America, most of South America,
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The encomienda system was a trusteeship labor system employed by the Spanish crown during the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the Philippines in order to consolidate their conquests.
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The Repartimiento de Labor was a colonial labor system imposed upon the indigenous population of Spanish America and the Philippines. It was close to the mita system of the Inca Empire: the natives were forced into low-paid or unpaid labor for a portion of each year on
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: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

  • Jeronimo de Aliaga
  • Diego de Almagro
  • Pedro de Alvarado
  • Pedro Arias de Ávila
  • Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón
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  • Vasco Núnez de Balboa

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The New Laws (or Leyes Nuevas in Spanish) of 1542 were created to prevent the exploitation of the indigenous people by the encomenderos during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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The Valladolid debate (1550 – 1551) concerned the treatment of natives of the New World. Held in the Spanish city of Valladolid, it opposed two main attitudes towards the conquests of the New World.
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Bandeirantes were Brazilian colonial scouts who took part in the Bandeiras, exploration expeditions. Through these, the Bandeirantes expanded Portuguese America from the small limits of the Tordesilhas Line to roughly the same territory as current Brazil.
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