conquistador

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Meaning

an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)

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I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort. Sigmund Freud

Archeologists estimate that by the time the Spanish conquistador Orellana journeyed across the Amazon in 1541, more than 3 million Indians lived around the Amazon. Source: Internet

Both were part of the Descamisados, the "shirtless ones": the lumpen proletariat marginalised and derided by Argentina's conquistador aristocracy, but whom the Peróns courted with their left-wing reforms and populism. Source: Internet

It was discovered by the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León in 1513. Source: Internet

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada was the leading conquistador. Source: Internet

But recently, tensions have risen among the two populations over Santa Fe's annual conquistador pageant, known as La Entrada, which celebrates the arrival of the Spanish. Source: Internet

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