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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
7: Coronado was governor of [[New Galicia]] (contemporary [[Sinaloa]] and [[Nayarit]], Mexi...
9: ... city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Zuni]] Indians. Marcos was s...
11: ...[[Hernando de Alarcón]] who would be shipping supplies for Coronado. [[Pedro de Tovar]] was sent nort...
14: ...n as [[Wichita (tribe)|Wichita]]) were no rich people at all, the village consisted mostly of thatched...
16: ...s a complete failure, he remained governor of New Galicia until [[1544]], then retired to [[Mexico City]], ... - 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. [[... - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: .... The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, although pipers most commonly talk of "pipes...
16: ...ch is tied into the bag and which the pipe itself plugs into. The bag usually consists of leather, but...
23: ...s. [[Nero]] is generally accepted to have been a player; there are Greek depictions of pipers, and th...
25: ...iti", is traditionally said to have been the tune played as [[Robert the Bruce]]'s troops marched to [...
38: ...[pipe band]]s (civilian and military), and is now played in countries around the world, particularly c... - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
53: ...non" and "the Sudan") and partly because of its implication that Ukraine is merely a region rather tha...
55: ...o cut" (krayaty), indicating the land the Rus' people (or Ruthenians or Ukrainians) carved out for the...
60: ...erritory of Ukraine was populated by [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]] nomads called [[Scythian]]s. The King...
64: ...he southern part of the first Eastern [[Slavic peoples|Slavic]] state, [[Kievan Rus']]. Its capital wa...
66: ...[[Khazars]] (a [[Turkic]] semi-[[nomad|nomadic people]] from [[Central Asia]] who adopted [[Judaism]])... - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ...side of the [[strait of Gibraltar]], known as ''[[Plazas de soberan�]'', such as the [[Islas Chafari...
12: national_motto = ''[[Plus Ultra]]''<br>([[Latin]]: "Further Beyond") |
48: ...Basque language|Basque]], and [[Galician language|Galician]] are co-official; in the [[Val d'Aran]], the [[...
58: ...[[Basque people|Basque]]s, the only pre-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the present day as a sepa...
68: Hispania supplied the Roman Empire with food, olive oil, wine an... - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...ch as the [[Fourth Crusade]] against [[Constantinople]], the [[Albigensian Crusade]] against the [[Cat...
4: ...events, the word crusade has evolved to have multiple meanings and connotations. For additional meanin...
7: ...ors always sought an outlet for their violence. A plea for help from the Byzantine Emperor [[Alexius I...
11: ...ried to marshal public opinion in their favor, people became personally engaged in a dramatic religiou...
15: ...lims toward Christian pilgrims; these rumors then played an important role in the development of the c... - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ... large-scale [[genocide|civilian massacres]] took place. Four dynasties, the [[Habsburg]]s, the [[Roma...
4: ...selves (see [[#Diplomatic and political origins|Diplomatic and political origins]] below).
8: ... a general war. Scholars have also cited German diplomatic ineptitude as well as a tremendous tide of ...
13: ==Diplomatic and political origins==
16: ...he war's real origins lie further back, in the complex web of alliances and counterbalances that devel... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...a]], and Napoleon's empire ultimately suffered complete military defeat, resulting in the [[Bourbon Dy...
18: ...Until the time of Napoleon, European states had employed relatively small armies with a large proporti...
20: ...ed the [[cannonball]] sizes to ensure easier resupply and compatibility among his army's artillery pie...
22: ... revolution rather than ideas which found their implementation in it.
24: ... be given to Napoleon, however. [[Lazare Carnot]] played a large part in the reorganization of the Fre... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
5: Coronado was governor of [[New Galicia]] (contemporary [[Sinaloa]] and [[Nayarit]], Mexi...
8: ... city fray Marcos had described, it was just a simple [[pueblo]] of the [[Zuni]] Indians. Marcos was s...
10: ...[[Hernando de Alarcón]] who would be shipping supplies for Coronado. [[Pedro de Tovar]] was sent nort...
12: ...n as [[Wichita (tribe)|Wichita]]) were no rich people at all, the village consisted mostly of thatched...
14: ...s a complete failure, he remained governor of New Galicia until [[1544]], then retired to [[Mexico City]], ... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
2: ...[tsunami]] about 9,000 years before his own time. Plato did mention it was somewhere outside the [[Pil...
5: ...]] and the Atlantians around 9,000 years before [[Plato]]'s existence.
9: ===Plato===
10: ''Main article: [[Critias %28Plato%29]]''
12: ...trate Plato's philosophy of the ideal government. Plato's account purports to be based on a visit to [... - Culture of Spain (17671 bytes)
1: ... its [[Mediterranean]] climate and geography have played strong roles in shaping its culture.
8: ...gional identity: [[Andalusia]], [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]] and [[Navarre]] each have their own version of ...
17: ...languages cover broad enough regions to have multiple distinct dialects. (Spanish itself also has dist...
30: *[[Galician]] (Gallego)
39: ...ding inland ports on rivers: [[Seville]], for example, was a major port until the [[Guadalquivir]] sil... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
14: ...Governor of the Kingdom of [[Nueva Galicia]] (New Galicia, a province of New Spain located northwest of Mex...
16: ...component carried the bulk of the expedition's supplies, and traveled by sea under the leadership of H...
21: ....<ref>Winship. P. 60</ref> Once the scouting and planning was done, Coronado led the first group of s...
23: ... described. Instead, it was just a complex of simple [[pueblo]]s constructed by the [[Zuni]] Indians....
30: ...o the [[Hopi]] territory to acquire scouts and supplies that could be used to find this river. Members...
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