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Did you know ...

• the Chilean wine grape Pais is believed to have descended from the "common black grape" that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés brought to Mexico in 1520?
• the Mam Maya capital city of Zaculeu (fragment pictured) fell to Spanish conquistador Gonzalo de Alvarado y Chávez after a siege that lasted several months?
• the town of Hueyapan in the Mexican state of Morelos was conquered by the female conquistador Maria de Estrada?
• the 2003 book Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by ethnohistorian Matthew Restall debunks seven popularly held beliefs about how Spanish conquistadors conquered the Aztecs?
• at the Battle of Cajamarca in 1532 the Inca Emperor Atahualpa was captured by Pizarro's conquistadors and that the battle was a decisive victory in the Spanish conquest of Peru?
• Pedro Pizarro, a Spanish chronicler and conquistador, took part in the Spanish conquest of Peru and wrote an account of it?
• Sandia Pueblo in central New Mexico was discovered by Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1539 while on an expedition to discover the seven Cities of Cibola?
• 17th-century French buccaneer Montbars the Exterminator attacked Spanish settlements in the New World, after reading about conquistador atrocities?