In 1513, Spanish explorer and conquistador Francisco Pizarro joined Vasco Núñez de Balboa in his march to the “South Sea,” across the Isthmus of Panama. During their journey, Balboa and ...

It’s the oldest gun in the West. Scientists have exhumed a nearly 500-year-old bronze conquistador cannon in Arizona that’s the oldest gun ever discovered in the United States, per a ...

The strategies used by the conquistadors were well-designed. Take Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés - he set up conflicts within the Aztec Empire, imported foreign disease, and defeated the mighty ...