Francisco Pizarro Research Paper

Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire. He captured and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa, and claimed the lands for Spain.

Early life

Francisco Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Caceres, Spain in Portugal, Spain. He was the son of people who weren’t married. His date of birth is not certain but it is believed to be sometime in 1470 - 1474.

His father served in Navarre and in the Italian campaigns. His mother married late in life and had a son Francisco Martin de Alcantara who was at the conquest of Peru with his half-brother. Francisco was a second cousin once removed of Hernan Cortes.

On 10 November 1509 he sailed from Spain to the New World with Alonso de Ojeda on an expedition to Gulf of Uraba in Tierra Firme he also participated in Ojeda's failed colony commanding the part until he abandoned it with the survivors. He sailed to Cartagena and joined the fleet of Martin Fernandez de Enciso in 1513.

What he did

Pizarro's first expedition turned out to be a failure as his conquistadores sailing down the Pacific coast reached no farther than Colombia before coming across bad weather, lack of food and fights with natives. Fearing hostile encounters like the one before. The expedition endured at the Battle of Punta Quemada Pizarro ended his first expedition and returned to Panama. Pizarro was officially named the Governor Captain-general. One of the grant conditions was that within six months Pizarro should raise a sufficiently equipped force of 250 men of whom 100 might be drawn from the colonies. When the expedition left the following year, it numbered three ships, 180 men and 27