This historical note on the conquest of the Inca Empire by Francisco Pizarro is illustrated and linked to continuing discussion about the age of exploration.

This site from Fordham University "provides quite a lot of information about the Incan economy--a redistributive typical of all early civilizations."

A well known historian tells the story of the early Spanish explorers known as "conquistadors". He discusses their motivation, what effect they had on the native American societies and much more. Archived.

The history of Spanish territorial conquest in the New World is the history of the succession of conquistadors who often overwhelmed native empires, but were sometimes overwhelmed themselves. Read about the conquistadors who came to the...

A biography of Francisco Pizarro which highlights his conquering of Peru and discovery of the Incan empire.