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Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés was the ambitious Spanish conquistador whose 1519–1521 campaign toppled the Aztec Empire and welded much of modern-day Mexico to the Crown of Castile, forever altering the political, cultural, and demographic trajectory of the Americas.
PeopleFrancisco Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro was the illiterate yet cunning Spanish conquistador whose 1532 ambush of Inca ruler Atahualpa at Cajamarba opened the way for Spain’s seizure of the largest native empire in the Americas.