Romantics like to think of them as a direct historical link to the Spanish Barb, released in the south-west during the 1500s by the conquistadors.
This small braying lot was to produce the mules that the conquistadors rode across two continents, their offspring arriving in Mexico ten years after the defeat of the Aztecs.
The Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century dreamed of this.
It originally fell around August, but the Christian conquistadors, hoping to assimilate the heathen holiday through their favoured tactic of cultural mestizaje (mixing), moved it to the day after All Saints' Day.
The Spanish conquistadors declared coca a tool of the devil, until they saw how it improved the work rate of the Indians they sent down the mines.
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Then there are the Spanish conquistadors, recently on a global acquisition spree.
In the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors fell in love with the fruit after observing its prized status among the Aztecs.
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Conquistadors plundered the Sierra Nevada for gold, extinguishing other tribes in the area and almost decimating the Arhuac.
Sixteenth-century conquistadors cut a swath through ancient civilizations that had once rivaled those of the Aztec and Inca.
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