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A whole lot of printer ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most important characters, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? The Age of Exploration and the explorers who set out on the history-making expeditions still left many legacies and profoundly influenced history across the world. The voyages of men like Columbus and the conquests of men like Cortés possessed dramatic implications for the natives, escalated tensions between your European countries, initiated imperialistic empires on a global scale, helped delivery the United States, and ensured that the wars in the 20th century were truly world wars. In Charles River Editors' Legendary Explorers series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of the most important explorers of history in the time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. During the Time of Exploration, some of the most famous and infamous individuals were Spain's most widely known conquistadors. By natural means, as one of the better known conquistadors, Francisco Pizarro (1471/6-1541) is also one of the very most controversial. Like Christopher Columbus and Hernan Cortés before him, Pizarro was celebrated in Europe for subduing the Inca Empire, a culture that fascinated his contemporaries. At the same time, obviously, indigenous views of the man have been overwhelmingly negative.
