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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    1: ... [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and T...
    89: ...Red]], (c.950-1003), explored and colonized [[Greenland]]
    90: ...ríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Americas|America]]
    131: ...ara Falls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississ...
    148: ...anish people|Danish]] explorer, Governor of [[Greenland]]
  2. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
    1: ...eptember 22]],[[1554]]) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]], who in [[1540]]-[[1542]] visited [[New Mexico]...
    16: ...xico through roughly the same route he had come. Only 100 of his men came back with him. Although the ...
  3. List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
    51: *[[Lope de Aguirre|Aguirre, Lope de]], conquistador
  4. 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...
  5. Flag of Arizona (872 bytes)
    3: ... representing the original [[13 colonies]], the [[conquistador]] colors, and the colors of setting sun, as well...
  6. Texas (39610 bytes)
    38: ...or ''allies''; [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers mistakenly applied the word to the people and their locatio...
    66: ..., go to the [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/PP/bfp2.htm Handbook of Texas On...
    70: ...ndians, see [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/II/bzi4.html Handbook of Texas O...
    76: On [[November 6]], [[1528]] shipwrecked Spanish [[conquistador]] [[?var N?Cabeza de Vaca]] became the first know...
    94: In 1845, Texas became the first and, to date, only [[diplomatic recognition|internationally recogni...
  7. Tennessee (19096 bytes)
    39: ...ge named "Tanasqui" in [[1567]] while travelling inland from [[South Carolina]]. European settlers lat...
    48: When [[Conquistador|Spanish explorers]] first visited the area, led b...
    50: ...orders of North Carolina and extending them with only one small deviation to the [[Mississippi River]]...
    52: Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not h...
    77: ...nnessee lies adjacent to 8 other states, matched only by Missouri which also borders 8 states. Tenness...
  8. New Mexico (31079 bytes)
    46: ...en cities of gold. Dispatched from [[New Spain]], conquistador [[Francisco Vᳱuez de Coronado]] led a full-scal...
  9. Colonial America (32872 bytes)
    22: ...nd, found no trace of the colonists, discovering only the mysterious word "CROATOAN" carved on a tree....
    27: ...ped to follow in the footsteps of the Spanish ''[[conquistador]]es'' by finding gold. With that in mind, the co...
    29: ... a harvest, named the winter the Starving Times. Only a third of the colonists survived the first wint...
    37: ...]]s out of the far-flung tobacco planters. Thus, unlike in [[Puritanism|Puritan]] New England, there w...
    49: ... later relocated to [[Plymouth Colony]] on the mainland, establishing that settlement on [[December 21...
  10. Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
    3: ...in enforcing the ''[[limpieza de sangre]]'' ("cleanliness of blood") against descendants of converted ...
    18: ...as [[Pope Sixtus IV]] sanctioned the Inquisition only in the state of Castile. Later, Borgia was to ha...
    20: ...thority of the Inquisition was supposed to reach only Christians, not Jews or Muslims, but since [[149...
    44: ...als as suspected heretics in Spain, but of these only about 1,200 - 2,000 were actually sentenced to t...
    48: ...e help of various [[exploration|explorer]]s and [[conquistador]]s.
  11. Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
    2: ...City, Arkansas) was a Spanish [[navigator]] and [[conquistador]]; de Soto participated in the conquest of [[Pana...
    5: ...the Spanish colonies, landing in [[Panama]]. His only possessions then were a shield and his sword. In...
    13: When the Andes were to be redistributed among the conquistadors, de Soto became furious and disunited with Pizar...
    15: ...uer Florida. (In Narv᥺'s ill-fated expedition, only four men survived out of 400.) De Soto saw his c...
    28: ...ons and the [[oral history]] of the natives have only lately been considered. However, this bears the ...
  12. Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
    1: ...eptember 22]],[[1554]]) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]], who between [[1540]]-[[1542]] visited [[New Me...
    14: ...xico through roughly the same route he had come. Only 100 of his men came back with him. Although the ...
  13. Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
    2: ...[1485]]–[[December 2]], [[1547]]) was the [[conquistador]] who conquered [[Mexico]] for [[Spain]]. He was ...
    5: ...e|Kingdom of Castile]] in Spain in [[1485]], the only child of Martín Cortés and Catalina Pizarro Al...
    12: ... Governor Velázquez forbade him to invade the mainland (a privilege he reserved for himself), but cal...
    18: ... Mexica/Aztecs), and a dialect of Nahautl spoken only to and in front of the Mexica/Aztec emperor.
    22: ...," 1519, adding to the extraordinary luck of this conquistador.) However, there is much doubt as to the truth of...
  14. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
    8: ...Guatemala]], made him one of the richest of the [[conquistador]]s in Mexico.
  15. History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
    8: ...owever, the Christian claim of exclusivity, that only its understanding of "Jewish" teaching is valid,...
    80: Christianity was not the only religion seeking and finding converts in the [[1...
    84: ...he [[3rd century|third century]] emperors were openly encouraging it, as the religion favoured their r...
    102: ...ved approximately 210-275 AD. The name Mani is mainly a title and term of respect rather than a person...
    138: ... as high priest of Mithras Sol Invictus, and the only alleged occurrence of Constantine I converting w...
  16. Native American (42651 bytes)
    7: ...Canada, where the term [[First Nations]] applies only to Native Canadians who belong to the same cultu...
    21: ...C|11,000 years ago]]), and that they followed an inland route through Alaska and Canada that had just ...
    49: ...250,000 [[Arawaks]] of [[Haiti]], were enslaved. Only 500 survived by the year [[1550]], and the group...
    87: ...assed by the state's General Assembly recognized only two races, "white" and "colored". Plecker pressu...
    109: In [[Canada]], the most commonly preferred term for Native Americans is ''The [[F...
  17. Teotihuacan (6370 bytes)
    30: ...e the sun was created; it astonished visiting ''[[conquistador]]es'', and it has been one of the most noted attr...
  18. Toltec (2981 bytes)
    5: ... This is certainly not so, as this deity was commonly depicted throughout [[Mesoamerica]] for centurie...
    9: ...was burned by [[HernᮠCort鳝] and the Spanish [[conquistador]]es.
  19. Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
    4: ... the last Inca, was killed on the orders of the [[Conquistador]] [[Francisco Pizarro]], marking the beginning of...
    32: ...importantly the Kindom of [[Chimor]], the Inca's only serious rival for the coast of Peru. T?Inca's em...
    36: ...achapoya]] that had been conquered were almost openly hostile to the Inca, and the Inca nobles rejecte...
    42: ...and. The Inca fought fiercely against the Spanish conquistadors, but could not simultaneously face the technolog...
    57: ...remain the dwelling of the former Inca's family. Only descendants of the original Inca tribe ever asce...
  20. Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
    3: ...destroyed in the [[1520s]] by [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]]s, [[Mexico City]] was erected on top of the rui...
    9: ...Mexico. The small natural island was perpetually enlarged as an [[artificial island]] as Tenochtitlan ...
    11: The city was connected to the mainland by a series of wide causeways with bridges. Th...
    15: ...oatl]], welcomed him with great pomp. Some of the conquistadors had traveled as widely as [[Venice]] and [[Const...

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