(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.
Inca
Definition:
(n.) An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun.
(n.) The people governed by the Incas, now represented by the Quichua tribe.
Example Sentences:
(1) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
(2) Our proposal is based on the observation that incA can bind to a RepA-origin complex in vitro.
(3) The region which determines sensitivity to the IncA determinant seems to overlap with the region specifying the IncA determinant.
(4) On the day I arrive a time lapse of cloud is drifting across the ridge, above a geometry of Inca stairways and terraces cut into a steep, jungly spur above the Apurímac river, 100 miles west of Cusco in southern Peru.
(5) We propose that incA, in addition to sequestration, can also restrain replication by causing steric hindrance to the origin function.
(6) On the other hand, sera from the INCA patients were reactive with the peptides no.
(7) The leaf, which was sacred in the days of the Incas, has long been highly valued by people living in the Andes, on account of its nutritional and medicinal qualities.
(8) The INCA program converts Consort 30-generated fluorescence list mode data collected from Indo-1-stained cells to absolute intracellular calcium concentrations (nM Ca2+i).
(9) We show that one repeat sequence is sufficient to bind RepA and can reduce the copy number of incA-deleted plasmids.
(10) Health Inca Tea ingestion should be considered when interpreting urinary BE concentrations.
(11) Rather, the incA sequences appear to block the origin by direct contact in a plasmid-plasmid pairing event.
(12) The widely-held belief that Columbus's ship brought the disease from the New World to Europe rests on identification of the classic lesions in Inca, Aztec and Mississippian bones that date from 1,000 to 3,000 years before present.
(13) Occasionally there are multiple ossification centers in the interparietal bone which fail to fuse, resulting in one of several varieties of os incae.
(14) In the ancient Peru, particularly in the Inca Empire, the review of alcohol use and abuse must be made according to the ethnohistorical and cultural context with special emphasis on ideological and customary aspects.
(15) A possibility that a small anti-sense RNA is involved in copy number control and incompatibility (IncA function) was suggested.
(16) But if any archaeological evidence exists for Choquequirao as a “last refuge of the Incas”, it’s lost beneath the jungle.
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(18) The expression of the trans-acting factor(s) specifically required for replication of ColE2 interferes with expression of the IncA determinant against ColE2 but not against ColE3.
(19) When both the origin and the incA locus are present on one plasmid, trans contacts with daughter molecules appear to predominate over cis looping.
(20) A 2003 Rodale article describes its cultural place in the Andean highlands, an area that encompasses parts of Bolivia , Peru, and Ecuador: Quinoa (pronounced keen-wá), a seed grain, has been cultivated in the Andean region for over 7,000 years and was considered sacred by the Inca Empire.