Marlainey

FRANCISCO PIZZARO

 I would like to introduce you to Francisco Pizarro. Francisco Pizarro was born in 1471 in Trujilo, Spain. Not much is known about his early life, but I do know that little attention was paid to Francisco Pizzaro’s education and he grew up uneducated. This explorer was best known for conquering the Incas and finding Lima, Peru, which is now the capital.

Francisco Pizarro had many voyages before he went to Peru. He sailed from Spain to the New World with Alonzo de Ojeda on an expedition to Urabi. He sailed to Cartagena and joined the ship of Martin Fernandez de Enciso and in 1513 he accompanied Balboa to the Pacific. In 1514, he was rewarded for his role in the arrest of Balboa with the positions of mayor and magistrate in Panama City serving from 1519 to 1523.

Pizarro set out in 1530 for Peru with 180 men and 37 horses to make his fortune. He and his army landed on the west coast of Peru and then began the long climb into the Andes Mountains. He marched toward the Emperor Atahualpa and his soldiers. Pizarro captured Atahualpa by tricking him. He made the natives pay a huge ransom for their emperor. After the ransom was paid, Pizzaro killed the emperor anyways and took over the Inca Empire.

A year later Pizarro invaded Cuzco the royal capital of Peru. But because Cuzco was so far into the mountains, Pizarro made Lima the capital of Peru. Later, Pizarro had an argument with a man named Almagro. They fought over the right to Cuzco. They were in a battle and Pizarro was killed.

Although I ended up liking researching Pizzaro, I thought that he was mean, selfish and a murderer. He made the Incan people pay a lot of my for their Emperor, only to kill him anyways. That was mean. He was selfish because he wanted all of the gold and money for himself.

By, Marlainey