According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a conquistador serving under Cortés who recorded his experiences in his book The Conquest of New Spain, the supposed plot was revealed by two men, named Tapia and Juan Velásquez.

** Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Spanish conquistador ( b. c. 1492 )

** Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Spanish conquistador ( d. 1584 )

Bernal Díaz del Castillo ( 1492 – 1585 ) was a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards for Hernán Cortés, himself serving as a rodelero under Cortés.

The Truthful History of the Conquest of New Spain ( Spanish: Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España ) is the first-person narrative of Bernal Díaz del Castillo ( 1492 – 1581 ), the 16th-century military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler, who served in three Mexican expeditions ; that of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba ( 1517 ) to the Yucatán peninsula ; the expedition of Juan de Grijalva ( 1518 ), and the expedition of Hernán Cortés ( 1519 ) in the Valley of Mexico ; the history relates his participation in the fall of Emperor Moctezuma II, and the subsequent defeat of the Aztec empire.

Aronofsky, influenced by Bernal Díaz del Castillo's The Conquest of New Spain, applied the narrative in writing the film's conquistador scenes.

Late in life, when Díaz del Castillo was eighty-four years old, and residing in his encomienda estates in Guatemala, he wrote The Truthful History of the Conquest of New Spain to defend the story of the common-soldier conquistador within the histories about the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

La rebelión del conquistador vasco Lope de Aguirre en historiografía y ficción histórica ( 1561-1992 ).

After Pascual de Andagoya, a Spanish-Basque conquistador under the direction of Panama governor Pedrarias Dávila, founded Panama City in 1519, Santa María la Antigua del Darién was abandoned and in 1524 was attacked and burned by the indigenous people.

Santa Cruz del Quiché was founded by Pedro de Alvarado, a companion and second in-command of conquistador Hernán Cortés, after he burned down the nearby Maya capital city of Q ' umarkaj ( or Utatlán, in the Nahuatl language ).

The settlement of Nueva Barcelona del Cerro Santo (), was originally established by the Spanish conquistador Joan Orpí ( a native of Piera, Catalonia in Spain ).

As a " conquistador " of Tierra del Fuego in southern South America, he was a controversial but influential figure.

The first European contact with chocolate came when Montezuma ( then tlatoani of Tenochtitlan ) introduced Hernán Cortés, a Spanish conquistador, to xocolatl in the 16th century.

Agüeybana, a cacique who led the region, was among those that greeted Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León when he came to the island in 1508.

There are no records regarding the pre-Hispanic history of the indigenous village of Popayán, but on 13 January 1537 the Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar came to the conquered village and declared the foundation of Popayán.

The siege of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, came about in 1521 through the manipulation of local factions and divisions by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.

The remote past for Santa Maria is the nebulous, uncharted era long before the intrepid Spanish conquistador and the equally spirited missionary came, one in search of lands and gold for the king, the other in search of souls for

These belief in spirits greatly helped the Spanish conquistador and the missionary who both came to Ilocos and under whose joint efforts, the Ilocos was subsequently converted to Christianity and brought under Spanish rule.

" Rodríguez de Ocana, another conquistador, relates Cortés ' assertion that after God, Marina was the main reason for his success.

" Laoag " ( Ilocano for " light or clarity "), is an old, flourishing settlement known to Chinese and Japanese traders when the Spanish conquistador Juan de Salcedo arrived at the northern banks of Padsan River in 1572.

When Portuguese explorer and conquistador Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines in the service of Spain, Zula was one of those who gave tribute to the Spanish king while Lapu-Lapu refused.

The Spaniard conquistador Hernán Cortés, who led the first expedition that resulted in the fall of the Aztec empire, ordered his men to strip and scuttle his fleet in order to prevent the secretly planned return to Cuba by those loyal to Cuban Governor Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar.

The sources describing the Spanish conquest of Guatemala include those written by the Spanish themselves, among them two of four letters written by conquistador Pedro de Alvarado to Hernán Cortés in 1524, describing the initial campaign to subjugate the Guatemalan Highlands.

Diego de Almagro, ( c. 1475 – July 8, 1538 ), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo ( The Elder ), was a Spanish conquistador and a companion and later rival of Francisco Pizarro.

Flutes and whistles made of wood, cane, or bone are also played, generally by individuals, but in former times also by large ensembles ( as noted by Spanish conquistador de Soto ).

( 1502 – August 20, 1572 ), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo ( The Elder ), was a Spanish conquistador who established one of the first European settlements in the East Indies and the Pacific Islands in 1565.

Inés de Suárez, also called Inés Suárez, ( c. 1507 – 1580 ) was a Spanish conquistadora ( female conquistador ) and mistress to Pedro de Valdivia who participated in the Conquest of Chile, successfully defending Santiago against a Mapuche attack in 1541.

The Cathedral also contains the tomb of the Spanish conquistador of Peru, Francisco Pizarro.

In practice, a conquistador, or later a Spanish settler or offiical, would be given and supervised a number of indigenous workers, who would labor in farms or mines, or in the case of the Philippines might also be assigned to the ship yards constructing the Manila galleons.

The Fountain also stars Ellen Burstyn as Dr. Lillian Guzetti, Tommy's superior, and Mark Margolis as Father Avila, who accompanies Tomas the conquistador.

In 1541 Spanish conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado led an expedition onto the Great Plains of Kansas searching for wealth.

However, Almagro's friendship with Pizarro showed signs of deterioration in 1526 when Pizarro, in the name of the rest of the conquistadors, called forth the " Capitulacion de Toledo " law in which King Charles I of Spain had laid out his authorization for the conquest of Peru and the awards every conquistador would receive from it.

The revision story " The Mound ", which describes the discovery of an underground realm called K ' n-yan by a Spanish conquistador, reports that a temple of Tsathoggua there " had been turned into a shrine of Shub-Niggurath, the All-Mother and wife of the Not-to-Be-Named-One.

After arriving in Chile, Valdivia and his men went out of their way to restore the relationship between conquistador and Indian which had been greatly harmed by Almagro and his merciless ways.

Valdivia had a clash with the warlike Araucanians beyond the Bio-Bio River in 1550 in which he defeated them but by no means broke their will to resist, a will that grew stronger when the conquistador established settlements in their territory.

Instead, the Maya were organized into a number of independent states, which the conquistador forces needed to subdue almost one by one, and many of these fiercely resisted the Spanish incursions.

Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón, one of the lieutenants of conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa, suggested four possible routes, one of which closely tracks the present-day canal.

He appeared in the title role in a 1963 production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, which flopped, but he had a great success in Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun, playing conquistador Francisco Pizarro to David Carradine's Tony Award-nominated Atahuallpa.

Cavite City was given royal encomienda or land grant on May 16, 1571 by the Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi, which was named Cavite la Punta.

The eye gouge scene through a splinter, the zombie feast scene, and the scene in which a petrified Susan has her throat excavated by a zombie conquistador.

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba ( died 1517 ) was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were compiled.

The other led a 1517 expedition which provided the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula: see Francisco Hernández de Córdoba ( Yucatán conquistador ).

Having deprived the Inca empire of leadership, Pizarro and another conquistador, Hernando de Soto, moved south to Cuzco, the heart of Tawantinsuyu, which they captured in November 1533 ; they then led their men in an orgy of looting, pillaging, and torture in search of more precious metals.

Tela was founded by the Spanish conquistador Cristóbal de Olid on 3 May 1524 near an indigenous town named Tehuacán, ruled by a cacique named Cucumba which had a very good source of clean water, food and medicinal plants.

After the Spanish colonization ( 1534 ), Huancayo was overshadowed by Jauja, 18 km to the north, which the conquistador Francisco Pizarro established as a provisional capital of Peru until Lima took over that role.

In 1523 the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado, with the help of the Cakchiquel Maya, defeated them in a battle close to the town of Panajachel in which they lost a portion of their lands, and the control of the lake.

She has written a book which apparently tells the story of Tomás the conquistador, but when she collapses at a museum, she becomes convinced that she won't live long enough to finish the book and asks Tommy to write the final chapter.

He wrote about his ride in a bestselling book called The Ride or Tschiffely's Ride in which he recounts his epic three year journey from 1925 to 1928 on two native Criollo horses named Mancha ( meaning Spotty ) and Gato ( meaning Cat ), direct descendants of horses brought to Argentina by the conquistador Pedro de Mendoza in 1535, the first horses brought to the new world.