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Pizarro's Adventures in Panama
The queen also made pizarro a knight of the order of santiago, spain's highest order of knighthood. He was effectively being appointed a crusader. The crown gave him several dominican monks to ake with him to underscore that he was on a religious mission. They gave him a license to buy artillery in panama as well as 25 horses from jamaica and 30 african slaves from cuba. But other than this, the monarchy offer no direct support, instead promising, as usual, that the men could keep a share of any loot that their campaign acquired for them. Pizarro's expedition was low risk and potentially very high reward.
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