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An explorer, soldier and conquistador, Francisco Pizarro was Born around 1474 in Trujillo, Spain. As a soldier, he served on the 1513 expedition of Vasco NÃºÃ±ez de Balboa, during which he discovered the Pacific Ocean.
In this brief Hernan Cortez biography, we'll try to learn a bit more about the man who tried to conquer the Aztec empire. In one sense, he did conquer it. In another sense, it lived on in spite of all that Hernan Cortes and his army tried to do. HernÃ¡ndo CortÃ©s Pizarro was his full name in Spanish. He was born in 1485 in the kingdom of Castile (now a part of Spain) in the city of MedellÃ­n. His was an upper class family, though his parents weren't wealthy.