Conquistadors is a tale of world conquest as I have dreamt it, a hurricane or swarm of locusts. It is in any case a great shindig of gold and blood, a glorious and vulgar epic, like they all are, a mix of high maneuvers and low blows. This episode is the conquest of Peru by Francisco Pizarro and the destruction of the Inca Empire. We see the tragedy of our world unfold in this great news story where the map, God, gold, and gunpowder meet.
So, clinging to the dry slopes of the Andes for the great hunt for God, Spain's mercenaries blew the cold wind of progress on the first embers of the empire.