Conquistador · 1478 – 1541
Francisco Pizarro
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80Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that overthrew the Aztec Empire, bringing much of Mexico under Spanish rule and inaugurating centuries of colonial domination.
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83Che Guevara was the Argentine Marxist revolutionary who helped Fidel Castro seize power in Cuba, theorized guerrilla warfare as the path to revolution in the developing world, and became an iconic symbol of rebellion after his execution in Bolivia in 1967.
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83Isabella I of Castile was the queen whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon united Spain, who completed the Reconquista by conquering Granada, and who sponsored the voyage of Christopher Columbus that opened the Americas to Europe.
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