Francisco Pizarro Interactive Biography
By Micah's Learning Resources
He marched into the heart of the Inca Empire with fewer than 200 men and captured its emperor. This interactive biography gives students the full Francisco Pizarro: an illiterate pig farmer who became one of the most consequential conquistadors, who exploited an empire already shattered by epidemic and civil war, and whose name is still debated across Peru and Spain. What's Included: - Five life eras with public domain paintings and a Guaman Poma folio illustration, from the Trujillo streets through the desperate first expeditions, the march into the Andes, the capture of Atahualpa, and the founding of Lima - A dual-track timeline that sets Pizarro's own life against the world he moved through: the Inca civil war, the smallpox epidemic that killed the Inca emperor before Pizarro arrived, and the Spanish settlement of the Americas - Four journeys drawn on a real world map with direction arrows and place markers, from Panama through the jungle, over the Andes to Cajamarca, and into Cusco - A twenty-node connections web of the people, ships and events around him: Atahualpa, Diego de Almagro, Hernando de Soto, the Andean allies who supplied the numbers - Spanish and Andean primary sources, each with a caution about perspective and what each document can and cannot prove, plus close reading prompts. Includes the Requerimiento read aloud to an Inca army that could not understand the language - A fifteen-question check for understanding with explanations Honest about the cost. This