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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ... [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and T...
6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]... - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: ...eptember 22]],[[1554]]) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]], who in [[1540]]-[[1542]] visited [[New Mexico]...
7: ...lies, and 1000 slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
9: ...nt. Cibola was nothing like the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pu...
12: ..., New Mexico]]). During his wintering he suffered from fierce attacks by the Indians.
18: Men from his expedition were the first Europeans to see ... - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
51: *[[Lope de Aguirre|Aguirre, Lope de]], conquistador - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...1460 – July 1521) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]]. Juan Ponce de León was born in Santervás de ...
4: ...Puerto Rico in 1509. Ponce de León and the other conquistadors forced the Tainos to work in the mines and to co...
7: ...d won his rights. Ponce de León was then removed from office in 1512 and felt his good name had been ...
11: ...was made in [[New York]] in 1882 using the bronze from English Cannons seized after the English attack... - Flag of Arizona (872 bytes)
3: ... representing the original [[13 colonies]], the [[conquistador]] colors, and the colors of setting sun, as well... - Texas (39610 bytes)
38: ...nguage]] of the [[Hasinai]], ''tejas'', meaning ''friends'' or ''allies''; [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers...
42: ...ist of U.S. state mottos | state motto]] — "Friendship"
50: ** flying — [[Mexican free-tailed bat]]
57: ...om you talk to (and which part of Texas they come from), Texas forms part of the [[U.S. Southern State...
62: ...ve flown over its soil: the [[Fleur-de-lis]] of [[France]], and the national flags of [[Spain]], [[Mex... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
39: ...ed "Tanasqui" in [[1567]] while travelling inland from [[South Carolina]]. European settlers later enc...
48: ...9]], nearly 17,000 Cherokees were forced to march from Eastern Tennessee to [[Indian Territory]] west ...
50: ...ennessee was the last Confederate state to secede from the Union when it did so on [[June 8]], [[1861]...
52: Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not have a military governor...
72: ...see Governors]], [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Tennessee]]'' - New Mexico (31079 bytes)
38: ...[[Hispanic]] ancestry, many of whom are descended from [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] [[colonist]]s. It al...
46: ...ld. Dispatched from [[New Spain]], conquistador [[Francisco Vᳱuez de Coronado]] led a full-scale exp...
50: ..."The Royal Road" as a 700 mile (1100 km) lifeline from the rest of [[New Spain]] to his remote colony....
58: [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] of [[France]] sold the vast [[Louisiana Purchase]], which...
60: Small trapping parties from the United States had previously reached Santa ... - Colonial America (32872 bytes)
4: ... features no matter what sort of colony it sprang from. By the late [[18th century]], these different...
9: ...d [[16th century|16th]] centuries, Europe emerged from the [[Middle Ages]] and entered the [[Renaissan...
13: ... as the Europeans were concerned, they were still free for the taking.
16: ...[over-population]] and the desire for [[religious freedom]] played their respective parts.
20: [[Image:ronokmap.JPG|right|framed|1584 map of Chesapeake Bay by John White]] - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
3: ...isition was the result of the reconquest of Spain from the [[Muslim]]s and the policy of converting Sp...
6: ...] and [[Valencia]], there was a local inquisition from the [[Middle Ages]], as in the rest of the Euro...
22: ...on]], who threatened to withhold military support from his kingdom of [[Sicily]]. Sixtus issued the [[...
26: ...possession of [[Greece]] and the Greek islands. [[France]], as always, was looking for signs of weakne...
36: ...often used to gain repentance. Punishments ranged from public shame to burning at the stake—dead... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Peru]]. Later, de Soto led ...
5: ...e commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba]] on his discovery an...
6: ... an ex-officer of Davila, had tried to break away from him. De Soto denunciated the treason and defeat...
11: ...arrested, DeSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two men emerged.
13: - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
1: ...eptember 22]],[[1554]]) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]], who between [[1540]]-[[1542]] visited [[New Me...
5: ...], and several slaves, both native Americans and Africans.
8: ...nt. Cibola was nothing like the great golden city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pu...
10: ...ters in one of them, [[Tiguex]] (across the river from present-day [[Bernalillo]] near [[Albuquerque, ...
25: ...erence.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/C/CoronadoF.html Francisco Vasquez de Coronado] - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
2: ...[1485]]–[[December 2]], [[1547]]) was the [[conquistador]] who conquered [[Mexico]] for [[Spain]]. He was ...
5: ...ern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to conquer the ...
12: ...o Hernández de Córdoba (discoverer of Yucatán)|Francisco Hernández de Córdoba]] in [[1517]] and [...
15: ...georgiasouthern.edu/international/pages/SECOLAS/CAFryer.htm]
18: ...), and a dialect of Nahautl spoken only to and in front of the Mexica/Aztec emperor. - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
8: ...Guatemala]], made him one of the richest of the [[conquistador]]s in Mexico.
10: ...venture (two or three ships), and stood to profit from any trade or treasure.
12: On [[June 27]], [[1542]], Cabrillo set out from Navidad (now [[Acapulco]]) in [[New Spain]]. On... - History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
8: ...in the [[first century]] AD. Christianity brought from Judaism its [[scriptures]] (the [[Old Testament...
10: ... on different interpretations of various passages from the Old Testament (or [[Tanakh]]).
26: ...hurch]] is said to extend in an unbroken timeline from this period. This section will examine those f...
45: *[[Justin Martyr]], convert from Greek philosophy
67: ...hurch and Roman Emperor Constantine, we can infer from [[Athanasius]]' arguments against Arius some id... - Native American (42651 bytes)
5: ...t native to the American continent, such as those from arctic [[Russia]]n [[Siberia]].
19: ...nd from people who [[Migration (human)|migrated]] from [[Siberia]] across the [[Bering Strait]], betwe...
21: ...oute through Alaska and Canada that had just been freed of its ice cover. There are a number of diffic...
26: ...e is that the Siberians were preceded by migrants from [[Oceania]], who arrived either by sailing acro...
28: ...heir theories, at least three separate migrations from Siberia to the Americas are highly likely to ha... - Teotihuacan (6370 bytes)
17: ...venue, called "Avenue of the Dead" (a translation from its Nahuatl name ''Miccaohtli''), is still flan...
22: ...t we infer about the culture at Teotihuacan comes from the murals that adorn the site and others, like...
24: ...to have been destroyed in a methodical way, their fragments dispersed.
30: ...e the sun was created; it astonished visiting ''[[conquistador]]es'', and it has been one of the most noted attr... - Toltec (2981 bytes)
3: ...all states in Central Mexico into an empire ruled from their capital, [[Tula, Mexico|Tula]] (also know...
7: ...he ruling family of the Aztecs claimed to descend from Toltec ancestry via the sacred city of [[Colhua...
9: ...was burned by [[HernᮠCort鳝] and the Spanish [[conquistador]]es.
11: Most Toltec history is known from writings of later peoples, such as the Aztec, w... - Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
4: ...as killed on the orders of the [[Conquistador]] [[Francisco Pizarro]], marking the beginning of [[Span...
11: The foreign name '''Inca Empire''' is derived from the word '''Inca''', which means "[[Emperor]]."...
19: ... ordered Manco Capac and [[Mama Ocllo]] to emerge from the depths of [[Lake Titicaca]] and found the c...
42: ...and. The Inca fought fiercely against the Spanish conquistadors, but could not simultaneously face the technolog...
82: ...in a [[ceremony]] to mark their [[manhood]]. Boys from noble families were subjected to many different... - Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
3: ...destroyed in the [[1520s]] by [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]]s, [[Mexico City]] was erected on top of the rui...
5: ...ival of the Aztecs, a tribe of people who came in from the west, that the area acquired its importance...
9: ...mmercial routes were developed that brought goods from places as far as the [[Gulf of Mexico]], the [[...
15: ...oatl]], welcomed him with great pomp. Some of the conquistadors had traveled as widely as [[Venice]] and [[Const...
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