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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ... [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and T...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the... - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: ...eptember 22]],[[1554]]) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]], who in [[1540]]-[[1542]] visited [[New Mexico]...
9: ...ed the [[Gila]] to Cibola, in the west of present-day New Mexico. There he was met by disappointment. ...
12: ...nter quarters in one of them, [[Tiguex]] (present-day [[Bernalillo]] near [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]])...
14: ...to Quivira, and he reached a village near present-day [[Lindsborg, Kansas]]. But his disappointment wa...
21: * [[Pedro de Castañeda]], translated with an extensive introduction by [... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
20: *[[Amir Ageeb|Ageeb, Amir]], (1969-1999), Sudanese immigrant to Germany who died as a result of ...
21: *[[David Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defen...
28: *[[David Hayes Agnew|Agnew, David Hayes]], (1818-1892), American surgeon
51: *[[Lope de Aguirre|Aguirre, Lope de]], conquistador - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ... the [[United States]] when he set foot in [[Florida]] in 1513.
4: ...Puerto Rico in 1509. Ponce de León and the other conquistadors forced the Tainos to work in the mines and to co...
7: ...om office in 1512 and felt his good name had been damaged. Not wishing to serve Diego, Ponce de León ...
9: ... the ''Memoir'' of [[Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda]], and was later included in the ''Historia gener...
12: ...lorida Day'', April 2, is a legal holiday in Florida. - Flag of Arizona (872 bytes)
3: ...setting sun, as well as portraying Arizona's legendary sunsets. The [[copper]] colored star in the cen... - Texas (39610 bytes)
16: LandArea = 678,907 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[December 29]], [[1845]] |
25: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] <small>(part of west Texas...
30: HighestElev = [[Guadalupe Peak]], 2,667 |
41: * [[state flower]] — the [[bluebonnet]] (''Lupinus texensis'') - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
16: LandArea = 106,846 |
24: AdmittanceDate = [[June 1]], [[1796]] |
25: ...Central Standard Time Zone|Central]]: [[UTC]]-6/[[Daylight saving time|-5]] <small>(central and wester...
39: ...]] town named [[Tanasi]] (or "Tanase") in present-day [[Monroe County, Tennessee]]. The town was locat...
48: When [[Conquistador|Spanish explorers]] first visited the area, led b... - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
17: LandArea = 314,590 |
25: AdmittanceDate = [[January 6]], [[1912]] |
26: ...untain Standard Time Zone|Mountain]]: [[UTC]]-7/[[Daylight saving time|-6]] |
46: ...542]]. Coronado camped near an excavated pueblo today preserved as [[Coronado State Monument]] in [[15...
52: ...ted Native Americans to forced labor on the haciendas and attempted to convert them to Christianity. T... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ...Colonies]]. Some historians add a fifth region – the [[frontier]] had certain unifying features...
22: ...had apparently disappeared in the middle of their daily tasks.
27: ...ped to follow in the footsteps of the Spanish ''[[conquistador]]es'' by finding gold. With that in mind, the co...
29: ...colonists to work, and befriended [[Pocahontas]], daughter of Chief [[Powhatan]], who was able to supp...
35: ... However, because rivers and [[creek]]s were abundant, this allowed the plantations to spread out. Th... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
1: ...guete]]. ''Saint Dominic Presiding over an [[Auto-da-fe]]'' ([[1475]]).]]
3: ...sangre]]'' ("cleanliness of blood") against descendants of converted Jews or Muslims. It was also use...
8: ... populated by [[Islam|Muslims]]. Until 1492, Granada was still under [[Moorish]] rule. The large citie...
16: ...rt of his political manoeuvering, aimed at consolidating the independent realms (joined by his marriag...
20: ...on in secret. Some disguised Jews had even been ordained as priests and even [[bishop]]s. Detractors a... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...th century through the southeast and midwest of today's [[United States|USA]].
6: ...reason and defeated Gonzales's army. As a result, Davilas leadership was secured and de Soto gained hi...
13: ... [[1537]], [[In鳠de Bobadilla]], the daughter of Davila. She came from one of the most respectable fa...
15: ... [[governor]] of [[Cuba]] ''y adelante de La Florida'' (meaning: all lands north of Mexico) by [[Emper...
17: == Expedition to Florida 1538-1542 == - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
1: ...eptember 22]],[[1554]]) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]], who between [[1540]]-[[1542]] visited [[New Me...
8: ...ed the [[Gila]] to Cibola, in the west of present-day New Mexico. There he was met by disappointment. ...
10: ...f them, [[Tiguex]] (across the river from present-day [[Bernalillo]] near [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]])...
12: ...to Quivira, and he reached a village near present-day [[Lindsborg, Kansas]]. But his disappointment wa...
24: * [[Pedro de Castañeda]], translated with an extensive introduction by [... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
2: ...[1485]]–[[December 2]], [[1547]]) was the [[conquistador]] who conquered [[Mexico]] for [[Spain]]. He was ...
5: ...who later conquered the [[Inca]] empire of modern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Franci...
10: ... slaves for his efforts. This was the ''[[encomienda]]'' that had worked so well in the conquest of th...
12: ...a more distant land where gold was said to be abundant. Cortés eagerly sold or mortgaged all his land...
18: ...gendary in book and film (even if she was not, as conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo wrote in his account "Th... - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
2: ...opean]] explorer to navigate the coast of present day [[California]] in the [[United States]]. He also...
5: ...probably in Seville, but perhaps in Cuellar." His date of birth and parentage are also unknown, but ev...
8: ...Guatemala]], made him one of the richest of the [[conquistador]]s in Mexico.
12: ...nd brought the remainder of the party back to Navidad, where they arrived [[April 14]], [[1543]].
14: ...f it made by another investigator, [[Andrés de Urdaneta]], who also had access to ships' logs and cha... - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
8: ...y and the temple priesthood, and later rabbinic Judaism.
10: ...a national one—the deliverer of [[Israel]]—and differs significantly from the Christian un...
12: ... beliefs are specifically commemorated on certain days each year, use of [[music]] in hymns and prayer...
14: *[[Judaism]]
29: ...de Laws]] subset of the [[Law of Moses]]. The [[Didache]] found in the [[Apostolic Fathers]] collectio... - Native American (42651 bytes)
5: ...ples native to [[Alaska]] and [[Arctic|arctic Canada]]). The latter share their cultural and genetic c...
7: The same distinction is made in Canada, where the term [[First Nations]] applies only to...
9: ...lude the [[M鴩s people (Canada)|M鴩s]] of [[Canada]] and the [[Mestizo]]s and [[Zambo]]s of [[Latin ...
19: ...a]] across the [[Bering Strait]], between 17,000–11,000 years ago.
21: ...00 BC|11,500 years ago]] or earlier [http://www.andaman.org/book/chapter53/luzia/luzia.htm]. Thus othe... - Teotihuacan (6370 bytes)
9: ...ies later for the [[Toltec]] capital of [[Tula, Hidalgo|Tula]] (''Tollan Xicocotitlan'' in Nahuatl).
15: ... The city reached its [[zenith]] approx. [[150]]–[[450]] AD, when it was the center of an influe...
30: ...e the sun was created; it astonished visiting ''[[conquistador]]es'', and it has been one of the most noted attr... - Toltec (2981 bytes)
9: ...was burned by [[HernᮠCort鳝] and the Spanish [[conquistador]]es.
11: ...ch as the Aztec, written centuries later after a "dark age" in Central Mexico, together with some refe...
13: * Chalchiuh Tlatonac – first Toltec king, founder of Tula
22: * [[Tlilcoatzin]] – died c. 1000 (?)
23: * [[Huemac]] – the last Toltec king, died in exile c. 1100 (?... - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ... the last Inca, was killed on the orders of the [[Conquistador]] [[Francisco Pizarro]], marking the beginning of...
11: ...the word '''Inca''', which means "[[Emperor]]." Today the word <i>Inca</i> still refers to the emperor...
17: ...[[Pacaritambo]] sent forth his four sons and four daughters to establish a village. Along the way, [[S...
28: ... Picchu]], either as a family home or as a [[Camp David]]-like retreat.
30: ...to the Inca nobility, and, with luck, marry their daughters into families at various corners of the em... - Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
3: ...destroyed in the [[1520s]] by [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]]s, [[Mexico City]] was erected on top of the rui...
15: ...oatl]], welcomed him with great pomp. Some of the conquistadors had traveled as widely as [[Venice]] and [[Const...
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