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[[Image:FranciscoPizarro.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Francisco Pizarro.]]
 
'''Francisco Pizarro''' (1471-1541) was a Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of [[Peru]], betraying and eventually killing their emperor, [[Atahualpa]].  While in Peru, Pizarro also discovered the greatest silver mine in the Americas, the vast majority of which was traded with [[China]], whose economy was based on silver.  Like Cortes' conquests, Pizarro's conquests were facilitated by the use of [[horse]]s, superior weapons, internal struggles, and devastating European diseases like [[smallpox]], against which the Incans had no immunity.
 
'''Francisco Pizarro''' (1471-1541) was a Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of [[Peru]], betraying and eventually killing their emperor, [[Atahualpa]].  While in Peru, Pizarro also discovered the greatest silver mine in the Americas, the vast majority of which was traded with [[China]], whose economy was based on silver.  Like Cortes' conquests, Pizarro's conquests were facilitated by the use of [[horse]]s, superior weapons, internal struggles, and devastating European diseases like [[smallpox]], against which the Incans had no immunity.
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[[File:Daniel Hernandez Francisco Pizarro Peru.JPG|thumb|left|by Daniel Hernandez.]]
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