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- Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
11: ... where his men raped the sacred virgins in the Temple of the Sun. With a group of fifty men, he discov...
15: ...his goods and equipped an expedition into the unexplored lands. His mission was to conquer, to settle,...
21: ...vana]] had, just shortly before his arrival, been plundered and burned down by French pirates. De Soto...
23: ...rida, in Bradenton (south of Tampa). He named the place ''Espiritu Santo'' after the Holy Ghost. De So...
26: ...isco Vᳱuez de Coronado]] into the territories explored by DeVaca to search for what came to be known... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...6/1497 - 1542) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] explorer and [[conquistador]] who, while leading the f...
5: ...ertainty is that he spent time as a child at both places, and he stipulated in his will that his body ...
7: ...ever schemes for the extortion of [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|native villages]] for their cap...
12: ... the camp of the Incan army, where he and his men plundered Atahualpa's tents.<ref>MacQuarrie. Pp. 57-...
14: ...rom Atahualpa's camp, Atahualpa's ransom, and the plunder from Cuzco, and had become very wealthy.
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - List of maritime explorers (2541 bytes)
3: The era of [[European]] [[sea]] [[explorations]] began in the late [[15th century]] and ...
5: This is a '''list of notable sea explorers''':
68: *[[Sebastian Cabot (explorer)|Sebastian Cabot]]
71: *[[Samuel de Champlain]]
89: *[[Amerigo Vespucci (explorer)|Amerigo Vespucci]] - Bjarni Herjulfsson (982 bytes)
1: ...ager to reach his destination and spent no time exploring the new lands. He did, however, report his f... - John C. Fremont (3726 bytes)
2: ...esidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform of opposition to slavery. He was born in [[...
5: ...oines River]], and from 1841 to [[1846]] he led exploration parties on the [[Oregon Trail]] and into t...
13: ... [[Wind River Mountains]] is also named for the explorer.
15: ... author abbreviation]] '''Frém.''' is applied to plants he described. - Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
2: ... it had perhaps been inhabited by the [[Dorset people]]). Born in the Jaeder district of south-west [[...
4: ...west of Iceland- lands that had supposedly been explored by Gunnjborn. Nearly a century earlier, Gunnb...
6: ...e." His salesmanship proved successful as many people (especially "those [[Vikings]] living on poor la...
12: ...reenland). His son Leif was the first Viking to explore the land of Vinland (North America). Leif invi... - Jules Dumont d'Urville (2251 bytes)
1: ...plorer]] and [[French Navy|naval officer]], who explored the south and western [[Pacific]], [[Australi...
4: His first feat as an [[List of explorers|explorer]], one which brought him much acclaim and pro...
6: ...rought home a very fine collection of animals and plants.
8: ...]], and other islands, and found out the probable place of the death of [[Jean-François de La Pérous... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...cia]] or [[Portugal]] among others. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic O...
3: ...etting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas,...
5: ...t]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472) of two, led by [[João Vaz C...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of the [[Caribbean]], including the isle...
11: ...]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and culture. [[... - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...ottish]] [[missionary]] and [[List of explorers|explorer]] of the [[Victorian era]], now best remember...
6: ...ing in [[London]], he became attracted by the example of another Scot, Robert Moffat, whose daughter h...
12: In the period [[1852]]–[[1856|56]], he explored the interior, discovering [[Victoria Falls]] ...
17: ...racts and rapids that Livingstone had failed to explore on his earlier travels.
19: ...ed great difficulty in raising funds to further explore [[Africa]]. - Jacques Cartier (8139 bytes)
3: ...tember 1]] [[1557]]) was a French [[Exploration|explorer]] who is popularly thought of as one of the m...
9: ...may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the period.
13: ...at present day [[Gaspé|Gaspé, Quebec]] where he planted a cross and claimed the territory for France...
35: ...den and seeds of cabbage, turnip and lettuce were planted. A fortified settlement was thus created wh...
43: ...d to wait for [[Samuel de Champlain|Samuel de Champlain]] in [[1608|1608]]. - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...s an extensive '''traveller''' or [[exploration|explorer]], whose account documents his travels and si...
6: ...tional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of some parts of the worl...
8: ... – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn Juzayy). In places the things he claims he saw or did are probab...
15: ...bron]], [[Jerusalem]], and [[Bethlehem]], for example – and the Mameluke authorities put special...
17: ... days, he then journeyed on to Mecca. There he completed the usual rituals of a Muslim pilgrim, and ha... - Steel (28384 bytes)
5: ...n-based alloys that can be [[plasticity (physics)|plastically]] formed (pounded, rolled, etc.).
8:
15: ... to ferrite or perlite does not have time to take place. The transformation into martensite, by contr...
23: ...dification process, and to produce shapes such as plate, sheet, wire, etc. It is then heat-treated to...
26: ...recovered from meteorite falls allowed ancient peoples to manufacture small numbers of iron artifacts. - Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
2: ...] of the [[Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt]]. Many people also regard her as the earliest known [[queen re...
10: ...mose]]. Hatshepsut was favored by the [[Karnak|Temple of Karnak]] over her two brothers who did not li...
17: :''Here ye, all persons! Ye people as many as ye are! I have done things'' :''accor...
20: ...of Egypt. Historians who believe in traditional explanation of Hatshepsut believe her motivation for w...
22: ...Hatshepsut. She organised for a mission, led by explorer [[Nehsi]], to [[Punt (region)|Punt]] in her n... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ... Gore-Booth''', the daughter of [[baronet]] and explorer Sir Henry Gore-Booth, she lived as a child at... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...n, Kansas|Atchison]], [[Kansas]], Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that...
8: ...lane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts...
10: ...on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the Cleveland Women's Air Derby (nic...
14: ...Lockheed Vega]], intending to fly to [[Paris]], duplicating [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s solo flight. Howev...
16: ...," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started planning her round-the-world flight. - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
1: ...co Polo is known as one of the world's greatest explorers — some skeptics see him as the world's...
5: ...er for the [[Pope]] asking to be sent educated people to teach in his empire, to inform the [[Mongols]...
7: ...ims, and some evidence contrary to it, with no complete records that would help ascertain the truth. T...
12: [[Image:Marco_Polo._Map_of_explore.jpg|thumb|Map of the journey]]
16: ... in Asia. Though they were much impressed, the people of Venice still doubted the Polos. - Matthew Henson (1087 bytes)
2: ...ue to his being black and his status as Peary's employee, he never reached the same fame as Peary in a...
4: ...himself about his arctic exploration (''A Negro Explorer at the North Pole'') in [[1912]] and later in... - Cartography (10500 bytes)
19: ...representing the curved surface of the earth on a plane. [[Eratosthenes]], [[Anaximander]], and [[Hipp...
21: ...not produce world maps because their cosmology supplied no dogma describing distant lands outside thei...
23: ...er-world.jpg|thumb|left|World map by [[Johannes Kepler]].]]
25: ...of globalism that was started with the [[Age of Exploration]] would continue during the [[Renaissance]...
34: ...canners (remote and document) and analytic stereo plotters along with visualization, image processing,... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
1: ...eviously unknown to them. Among the most famous explorers of the period were [[Christopher Columbus]],...
3: The Age of Exploration was rooted in new technologies and ideas g...
5: ==Exploration by land==
6: ...ccurate world maps prior to the age of European exploration]]
7: ... between Europe and the Middle East was almost completely controlled by traders from the Italian city ... - Americas (7154 bytes)
8: ...ntity concept also appears thematically. For example, the five rings of the [[Olympic flag]] represen...
10: == Peoples of the Americas ==
13: ...rm ''Americano'' is used to refer to things or people pertaining to the USA but the word ''Statunitens...
23: ...s derived from the [[Latin]]ized version of the explorer [[Amerigo Vespucci]]'s name, ''Americus Vespu...
27: ...with gold. According to Marcou, Vespucci later applied the name to the New World, and even changed th... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
9: ... arrived from South America in the third wave, displacing both the Arawak and the Salodoid-Barrancoid....
11: ...dos and used them as [[Slavery|slave labor]] on [[plantation]]s. Other Caribs fled the island, moving ...
15: ...ica, most notably [[South Carolina]]. To work the plantations, slaves were brought from Africa; the [[...
17: Local politics were dominated by plantation owners and merchants of British descent. ...
25: ...Commonwealth]], with a ceremonial [[president]] replacing the Queen.
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