12) Quiche. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...blending them with Western customs to create a distinctive mode of life. Pedro de Alvarado, with the help of the Cakchiquel or Kakchiquel, a neighboring but rival...

13) Barquisimeto. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...de Aguirre. Barquisimeto was rebuilt after an earthquake in 1812. It is the site of Lisandro-Alvarado Central-Western Univ....

14) Mendoza, Antonio de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of indigenous peoples in Nueva Galicia (called the Mixton War) in which Pedro de Alvarado was killed. By fostering expeditions, especially those under Marcos de Niza...

15) Mixton War. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of Tlaxcaltec and Aztec, succeeded in recapturing the towns by hard fighting. Pedro de Alvarado was killed in a rash assault on Nochistlan, and the reconquest was...

16) Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...villages in N Arizona, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas discovered the Grand Canyon, and Hernando de Alvarado struck out eastward and visited Acoma and the pueblos of the...

17) Mixtec. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...on a bloody resistance until they were subjugated by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado. There are perhaps 500,000 Mixtec-speaking people in Mexico today....

18) APRA. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...again resumed activities. In 1968, a group of left wing officers, led by Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado, seized power and outlawed all political parties, including the...

19) Pizarro, Francisco. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...land and Native Americans in encomienda to his followers. An attempt by Pedro de Alvarado to claim Quito was forestalled by Sebastian de Benalcazar and Almagro. Pizarro...

20) Cortes, Hernan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...1520, Cortes went to the coast, where he defeated a force under Panfilo de Narvaez. Pedro de Alvarado, left in command, impetuously massacred many Aztecs, and soon...