Fransisco Pizzaro

The New World

• In 1510 he left his past life to go to the new world
• Pizarro joined 300 settlers led by Alonso de Ojeda to establish a colony on the South American coast.
• They called the colony San Sebastion
• They quickly became low on food and Pizzaro was left in charge while people went to go find food
• after the fall of the colony only 100 of the 300 people survived
• The survivors returned to Cartagena

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• In cartogena Pizzaro met a man named Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Pizzaro sails with de Balboa and founds Darien on the west coast of south america which turns out to be a very succsesful colony
• In 1513, Pizarro acted as captain for Vasco Núñez de Balboa on the trip where Balboa became the first European to “discover” the Pacific Ocean.

Pizzaro Betrays Balboa

• The following year, Pedro Arias Dávila replaced Balboa as governor of Castilla de Oro.
• Dávila commanded Pizarro to arrest Balboa, his former associate, which Pizarro did.
• Becasue of his betrayal Pizzaro was rewarded hansomly and was able to afford his own expidition

Pizzaros first expiditions

• In 1510 left spain to explore the new world
• He set sail with Alonso de Ojeda and 300 other to establish a colony on the gulf of Uraba or what is know as Columbia today
• Food supplies started to dwindle and people were dying
• Alonso went on a hunting trip to try and keep the colony alive
• With over half of the people dead the remaining 100 people went to the colony of Cartagena
• In cartagena Pizzaro met Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Map of Alonso and his travels

Pizzaros travels with Balboa

• While in Catogena Pizzaro meets Vasco Nunez de Balboa who offers to take him onboard his ship
• With Balboa, Pizzaro sails around the coast of south america
• While captaining one of Balboas ships Pizzaro is one of the first Europeans to sail on the pacific ocean
• Balboa meets an untimley end when Pizzaro turns Balboa in to the governor of Castilla de oro and gets rewarded hansomly for it

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Balboa discovering the Pacific ocean

Fransiscos expidition to peru

• After leaving Balboas crew Pizzaro looked for other ways of making vast amounts of wealth in the new world
• Well-established and well-connected in Panama, Pizarro was able to think about launching his own expeditions of discovery
• Rumours drifted north that a great and golden empire lay in the unknown lands to the south
• Pizzaro led his first expidition in 1524-25 where he explored the northern coast of south America
• When he tried to travle inland up the Bira river his boats were stopped by the currents
• Pizzaro had to turn around when a agressive native tribe attacked his group injuring him and killing one man

Statues that show Pizzaro leading his expiditions to Peru

Expidition to Peru

Pizzaro conquors the Inca

Pizzaro conquors the inca

• Pizzaro was given the right by the king of spain to govern any land he took over in south America
• Pizarro organised his third expedition throughout 1530, and he set off once more into the unknown in December of that year.
• Pizzaro led a group of only 200 men through the andes sailing down the coast pillaging and taking all they could
• In 1531 Pizzaro got reindforments and him and his men marched into Incan teritory for the first time
• Pizzaro and the Incan king met and showed of to each other
• The next day Pizzaro ambushed the king and his army of 80,000 and him and his 260 soldiers killed 8,000 of the Incan and captured their king withour loosing a single man
• Pizzaro demanded lots of gold as payment for there king and when the Incans gave them the gold Pizzaro killed their king anyways

Pizzaros stolen Fortune

• Through is conquest and mass genocide of the Incan people Pizzaro abtained a large amount of wealth
• Although Pizzaro made a lot of money he still had to give 1/5 of it to his homeland and king
• Pizzaro ammassed milions of dollars in wealth
• One of his greatest payoffs was when he captured the Incan king and forced the natives to fill up a large room woth gold and 2 with silver which equaled to about 50,000,000 USD
• by the time of his death Fransisco had ammased a fortune of over 247 millions dollars

Incan Gold

Pizzaros Palace "PP"

• With his large fortune and power Pizzaro was able to build a large palace in the city Lima which he founded
• He filled the palace with art and made it beautiful
• It is now a government building
• Even though it was Pizzaros safe place he was murdered in his home in 1541

Pizzaros coat of arms carved into his house in Lima

Pizzaros Palace

Pizzaros empire

• When Pizzaro began conquoring the Incan empire he was told he could own any land he captured
• In 1535 the king of spain ruled that Pizzaro would have to share half of his land with his old deputy now enemy Diego de almagro
• Pizzaro got the north half of the kingdom while Almagro got the southern half
• Becasue of this divide tensions began to rise between the conquistadors and people would eventually choose sides over which house they alligned with

Pizzaros empire

Diegoe de Almagro

The death toll

• In the wars 50 year period (1520-1571) millions of people died
• It is roughly estemated that 9 million native people died in the time of the war
• This was not only caused by violence but also by disease brought in by the europeans

The death toll

Gurilla warfare

• When Pizzaro first arrived in Peru he only had 200 men so it made sense to use guriila tactics to take over the Incan empire
• It started when Pizaaro captured the king of the Incans and then killed him after they paid there bail money for him
• Pizzaro continued using this method surprise attacking important Incan generals and leaders and taking them out leaving the armies in complete caos with no leaders to be found to lead them
• This led to the over all sucsess of his colony

Gurilla Warfare

Pizzaros death

• Pizzaro was never very trustworthy of new people in his colony becasue of multiple tries for his life
• He also did not like to share with wealth and this led to him making enemies lis deigo de Almagado
• Pizzaro gave most of the power to his family member who were not all fit for the task of ruling but he didnt trust many people
• Because of this Pizzaro was betrayed by his own countrymen and on June 26 1541 a few of Alamgados conquistadors snuck into Pizzaros palace and stabbed him to death

Pizzaros death

Pizzaros Tomb

Pizzaros contributions

• Without Pizzaro south America would not have been able to be conquored and turned into a colony so quickly
• Pizzaro made a difference by setting up a permanent government in Peru which can still be seen in modern day Peru with his palace being used as the main governmental building
• Spain gained millions of dollars from his conquest which allowed them to further expand into the new world

Pizzaros Contributions

How is he remembered

• Pizzaro is remembered for good and bad reasons
• He is remembered for developing and helping settle the unexplored world of south america
• But he is also remembered for his genocide against the Incan people

Rememberance