Word: pizzaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Experiences of a summer spent travelling through the interior of Peru, voyaging by cance and balsa wood rafts as far as the Amazon basin and visiting the ruins of old Inca villages sacked by Pizzaro, were related yesterday afternoon by Berrien Anderson, Jr. '42 and Manuel I. Prado '42, in the lecture room of the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...series of slides Anderson showed an Inca community which had been overwhelmed and destroyed by the Spanish conquistador, Pizzaro, and in particular the fort called Sachesajuaman which resisted his onslaught bravely. When finally subjected by the cruel Pizzaro, the Inca captain of this fort's garrison leaped to his death from its 40 feet walls...