Historical Figure
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish conquistador (1478–1541)
About Francisco Pizarro
Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.Wikipedia ↗
Associated Events
Kingdom1438 CE – 1533 CE
Inca Empire
The Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, stretching roughly 4,000 km along the Andes with an extraordinary road network, terraced agriculture, and a sophisticated administrative system that used quipu (knotted strings) for record-keeping instead of writing.
Colonialism1492 CE – 1600 CE
Spanish Colonization of the Americas
Following Columbus's 1492 voyage, Spain conquered and colonized vast territories in the Americas, destroying the Aztec and Inca empires, subjugating indigenous populations, and extracting enormous mineral wealth.