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Balboa Punishing Indians Guilty of Sodomy(1623 clicks)
Engraving by Theodor de Bry. 16th century.

Books of the Brave(862 clicks)
Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World. Scholarly book by Irving A. Leonard

Columbian Exchange(378 clicks)
"The "Columbian Exchange"—a phrase coined by historian Alfred Crosby—describes the interchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the Americas following Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean in 1492."

Conquest of Mexico(1571 clicks)
Excellent essay on the conquest!

Conquistadors(734 clicks)

Francisco Pizarro(1526 clicks)

Hispanic Exploration & Conquest of North America (1492-1541)(1503 clicks)
Educational site

Indians Killing Spaniards, Among them several Clerics(1412 clicks)
Engraving by Theodor de Bry, 1590.

Indians Pouring Molten Gold in a Spaniard's Mouth(1418 clicks)
Engraving by Theodor de Bry, 1590.

Instructions to Conquistadors(1701 clicks)
by Franco de los Cobos. 1517.

PIZARRO'S FAMILY AND HIS HEAD(1460 clicks)
What happened to the head of the conqueror of Peru?

Prescott, The Conquest of Peru(1391 clicks)
History of the Conquest of Peru by William Hickling Prescott Project Gutenberg Release #1209 (February 1998). full text. This book, while fun, should not be totally believed.

Spain In America(1486 clicks)
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Spanish Exploration and Conquest of Native America(1428 clicks)
Spaniards explored America in the 1540's on trails that became our highways. Conquest Records describe Indian villages, attacked then diseased, along those trails. Pioneers settled those village clearings; our cities are built on them.

The Conquest Of Peru(1232 clicks)

The Conquest of the Inca Empire: Francisco Pizarro(1170 clicks)
From The European Voyages of Exploration project at the University of Calgary.

The Conquest of the Inca Empire: Francisco Pizarro(1169 clicks)
Short article from the tutorial "The European Voyages of Exploration"

The First Voyage of Columbus(1045 clicks)
Includes maps.