(1) Photograph: Claire Provost She compares the companies that have moved into her area to the Spanish conquistadors who invaded America.
(2) But in the 1520s, Spanish conquistadors arrived in Yucatán, signalling the beginning of the end for Mayan civilisation.
(3) The chinampas , or floating market gardens, are unique, one of the few living reminders of the Aztec city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan , captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1521.
(4) From the Roman property scammer turned general Marcus Licinius Crassus, to the Malian king Mansa Musa (possibly the richest man in history), via Cosimo de’ Medici and the bankrolling of Renaissance Florence , to the conquistadores and the great American tycoons, the same impulses emerge.
(5) Contrary to popular belief, it was not the European guns or fierce soldiers that conquered the native Americans, but instead it was the common childhood illnesses brought from the Old World by the European conquistadors.
(6) Author Antonio Ortuño compared Wednesday’s event to Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés – who led the fall of the Aztec empire – meeting with the Aztec emperor Montezuma.
(7) You have to get off the highway to see the real Baja, across the spine of mountains and along old mule trails that go back to the conquistadors, linking oases, old ranches and Spanish missions from the 1700s.
(8) The cunning centre gave us grants for our honest labour as the conquistadors gave beads to native Americans in exchange for gold.
(9) Argentines of Italian origin outnumber Argentines of the original conquistador caste, though they never succeeded in displacing Spanish as the dominant tongue.
(10) Just 300 Spanish conquistadores under the leadership of Cortés united with the Tlaxcallans and other enemies of the Aztec empire to exploit the leader Moctezuma's political indecision to full advantage, resulting in the conquest and collapse of the Aztec state.
(11) Aside from the city centre, this southern end of town is probably the best pocket of Spanish colonial life; if I turned right at this intersection and walked east a mile or so I would come to Coyoacán, the rustic oasis where Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and even the first conquistador, Hernán Cortéz, had their homes.
(12) Some have gone as far as to liken the corporate incomers to 21st-century conquistadors.
(13) In 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and his party first beheld the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan as if floating on the shimmering waters of Lake Texcoco, in the Basin of Mexico.
(14) When Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro arrived he took advantage of the mayhem, and captured the emperor Atahualpa, despite being vastly outnumbered.
Freebooter
Definition:
(n.) One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
Example Sentences:
(1) , a real triple-album of a movie, starring Ed Harris as US freebooter William Walker, who invaded Nicaragua in the 1850s and set himself up as president - before being executed by firing squad in Honduras in 1860.
(2) Seen by its proponents as an important check on power and by critics as an infuriating waste of time, the filibuster – from the Spanish filibustero , or freebooting – is an attempt by a minority political party to stall a bill, and hopefully prevent a vote, by endlessly debating it.
(3) To have a capitalist stock market being played like a casino by tens of millions of freebooting speculators right in the middle of a society still purporting to be socialist and run by a communist party with a deep affinity for rigid, Leninist, interventionist controls speaks to the contradictory nature of the modern Chinese dilemma.