Part one of term paper
was born in about 1476 in Trujillo, a small town near Caceres, Spain. The illegitimate son of a Spanish captain, he spent his childhood with his grandparents in one of Spain's poorest regions. He apparently never learned to read or write. The conquest of Peru by an obscure adventurer is one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of th ...

Part two of term paper
... possessions. He also founded the city of Lima, now the capital of Peru. Pizarro traveled to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1502 with the governor of that Spanish colony. He took part in an expedition to Colombia in 1510, and three years later, he accompanied Vasco Nunez de Balboa in a journey that ended in the discovery of the Pacific Ocean. From 1519 to 1523 he served as mayor of the town of Panama. In 1523, hearing of a vast and wealthy Indian empire to the south, Pizarro enlis ...