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Definition of Conquistadores
1. conquistador [n] - See also: conquistador
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conquistadores
Literary usage of Conquistadores
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Venezuela by Leonard Victor Dalton (1912)
"... of the conquistadores—The slave trade—Treacheries of the Cubagua colonists—Gonzalez
de Ocampo—Las Casas—First cities of the New World— Settlement of ..."
2. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1920)
"conquistadores« In 1517 Hernandez de Cordova, sailing from Cuba for the Bahamas,
was driven out of his course by adverse gales; ..."
3. Latin-American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1920)
"But the crowning misfortune common to the two empires was the possession of gold,
maddening the eyes of the conquistadores. II. ..."
4. Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt (1860)
"They err who believe that the conquistadores were incited by love of gold and
religious fanaticism alone. Perils always exalt the poetry of life; and, ..."
5. The Mother of California: Being an Historical Sketch of the Little Known by Arthur Walbridge North (1908)
"... CALIFORNIA I IN THE DAYS OF THE conquistadores Great State of California,
superb in thy wealth of minerals, clime and soil, threefold wealth with which ..."
6. The Pan-American Financial Conference of 1915 by Santiago Pérez Triana (1915)
"The Shadow of the conquistadores. GENTLEMEN, Our excursion under the ample and
hospitable auspices of the American Government and the American people, ..."
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