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which european explorer conquered the highlands of peru, adding it to the spanish empire in the 1530s

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In 1531 Francisco Pizarro's expedition of 180 men and 37 horses sailed to the Inca empire in Peru. A Spanish priest met with the Inca emperor Atahuallpa, exhorting him to accept Christianity and Charles V.

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