» This article's about the Spanish explorer soldiers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,for other uses see Conquistador (disambiguation) Conquistador (or in English; "conqueror") (meaning "Conqueror" in the Spanish and Portuguese languages)'s the term used to refer to the Portuguese and Spanish soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under the control of Spain and Portugal in the 15th through the 17th centuries following Europe's discovery of the New World by… (More on Conquistador)