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- 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. [[... - Anna of Austria (1601-1666) (1994 bytes)
4: She was born in [[Valladolid]], [[Spain]], as the daughter of [[Hapsburg]] par... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...once de León was born in Santervás de Campos ([[Valladolid]]). As a young man he joined the war to conquer [...
7: ...o serve Diego, Ponce de León obtained title to explore the areas north of [[Cuba]].
11: ...g|thumb|left|Statue of Juan Ponce de León at the Plaza San José in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]]. The st...
14: ... Leon is buried|200px|right|Ponce de Leon resting place]]
18: ... horses and other domestic animals, and farming implements. The expedition landed on the southwest coa... - 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") |
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...
77: ...st of the world. The unification of Iberia was complete when Carlos I's son, [[Philip II of Spain|Feli... - Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
8: ...rule. The large cities, especially [[Seville]], [[Valladolid]], capital of Castile, and [[Barcelona]], capital...
10: ...l. [[Pedro de la Caballeria]], a ''[[Marrano]]'', played a major role in arranging Ferdinand's marriag...
14: ...e using religion as a means of controlling his people. He wanted the Jewish and Muslim religions wiped...
24: ...on. He alleged that the Inquisition was a cynical ploy by Ferdinand and Isabella to confiscate the Jew...
33: ...thumb|260px|right|This picture is described as displaying [[Roman Catholic Church]] officials presidin... - Ferdinand Magellan (19348 bytes)
2: ...rtugal|Portuguese]] [[List of sea explorers|sea explorer]] who sailed for [[Spain]]. He was the first ...
15: ...lso told Magellan that he would have no further employment in his country's service after [[May 15]], ...
17: ==Plans for [[circumnavigation]]==
18: ...[October 20]], [[1517]], and from there went to [[Valladolid]] to see the teenaged king, [[Charles V, Holy Rom...
22: ...h America, which he thought to be the [[Rio de la Plata]], to the Pacific Ocean, forming a large bay-l... - Aztec (38742 bytes)
3: The '''Aztecs''' were a [[Mesoamerica]]n people of central Mexico in the [[14th century|14th]], ...
9: ...ebates in Mexica scholarship), so this name was applied to other cultures of the same cultural group. ...
11: ...eaving Aztlan, [[Huitzilopochtli]] ordered his people not to use the word Azteca, instead they should ...
14: ...logia e Historia, for example, refers to these people as Mexica.
22: The Aztec [[Empire]] is not completely analogous to the empires of European history... - Madrid (20882 bytes)
2: ...rms]]]][[Image:Madrid-PlazaEspana.jpg|thumb|300px|Plaza de Espa�a (Spain square)]]
4: ...pulation of the [[metropolitan area]] (urban area plus satellite towns) was 5,603,000 as of 2003 estim...
14: ...d the construction of a small palace (in the same place that is occupied now by the Palacio Real). Aro...
18: ...II of Spain|Felipe III]] installed his court in [[Valladolid]], Madrid's fortunes have closely mirrored those...
20: ...arlos IV]] ([[1748]]-[[1819]]) became king the people of Madrid revolted. After the [[Mutiny of Aranju...
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