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  1. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    1: ... [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and T...
    55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
    90: *[[Leifur Eiríksson]], (born 970), attempted to colonize [[Vinland]], discovered [[the Ameri...
    128: *[[Hannu]], [[ancient Egypt|ancient Egyptian]] explorer (around 2750 BC) and the first expl...
    129: ...rlands|Dutch]] [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] captain, charted mid-western coast of [[Australia]]
  2. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
    1: ...eptember 22]],[[1554]]) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]], who in [[1540]]-[[1542]] visited [[New Mexico]...
  3. List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
    9: *[[Agasias]], Greek sculptor
    20: ...rmany who died as a result of an deportation attempt
    41: *[[Agrippinus of Alexandria]], (pope 167-178), Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria
    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: ...y. The blue in the lower half is the same blue adopted for the national flag.
    5: The state flag of Arizona was adopted on [[February 17]], [[1917]]. It was designed b...
  6. Texas (39610 bytes)
    76: On [[November 6]], [[1528]] shipwrecked Spanish [[conquistador]] [[?var N?Cabeza de Vaca]] became the first know...
    125: ...xas "Declaration of Independence", making an attempt at a clear break from Mexican rule.
    128: ... de Santa Anna|Santa Anna]] himself passed into captivity.
    132: ...42]]: 1,400 Mexican troops, led by Adrian Woll, captured San Antonio again. They retreated, as before,...
    134: * [[9 September]] [[1850]]: The [[Compromise of 1850]] strip...
  7. Tennessee (19096 bytes)
    39: ...that became ''Tennessee'' was first recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and ...
    43: ...w state out of the [[Southwest Territory]], it adopted "Tennessee" as the name of the state.
    48: When [[Conquistador|Spanish explorers]] first visited the area, led b...
    50: ...]. After the [[American Civil War]], Tennessee adopted a new [[constitution]] that abolished [[slavery...
    70: ...Tennessee joined the union, and the second was adopted in [[1834]].
  8. New Mexico (31079 bytes)
    46: ...en cities of gold. Dispatched from [[New Spain]], conquistador [[Francisco Vᳱuez de Coronado]] led a full-scal...
    52: ...ericans to forced labor on the haciendas and attempted to convert them to Christianity. The [[Apache]]...
    66: ...from Mexico in [[1836]]. New Mexico authorities captured a group of Texans who embarked an expedition ...
    74: ...t established the [[New Mexico Territory]] on [[September 9]], [[1850]]. The territory, which included...
    76: ... ranch near [[Taos, New Mexico|Taos]]. Carson accepted an [[1853]] appointment as U.S. Indian agent wi...
  9. Colonial America (32872 bytes)
    2: ...an to colonize [[North America]]. The first attempts, notably the [[Colony of Roanoke]], resulted in ...
    11: ...alth and power necessary to begin systematic attempts at exploration. Also, as the economy of Europe ...
    16: ...At this time, however, there was no official attempt by the English government to create a colonial em...
    27: ...ped to follow in the footsteps of the Spanish ''[[conquistador]]es'' by finding gold. With that in mind, the co...
    37: ...ng - not the sort of audience that is usually receptive to the call of religion. It did not attract m...
  10. Spanish Inquisition (11421 bytes)
    20: ...1492]], every Jew in the King's states had been baptised ([[New Christian]]s) or expelled. If they con...
    24: ...of "Most [[Catholic King]]", and his ongoing attempts to woo the Pope to his side politically, Ferdina...
    33: ... know which texts and pictures are accurate descriptions of the inquisition procedures.]]
    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...
    13: When the Andes were to be redistributed among the conquistadors, de Soto became furious and disunited with Pizar...
    15: ... one out of four survivors of the disastrous attempt of [[Pᮦilo de Narv᥺]] to conquer Florida. (In...
    36: ...ition to slaves and guides, the Spaniards often captured the tribes' chieftains in order to gain safe ...
    38: ... ordered Ortiz to be roasted alive. He survived captivity and torture, and joined, at the first opport...
  12. Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
    1: ...eptember 22]],[[1554]]) was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]], who between [[1540]]-[[1542]] visited [[New Me...
    28: * [http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-3161 ''The journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from ...
  13. Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
    2: ...[1485]]–[[December 2]], [[1547]]) was the [[conquistador]] who conquered [[Mexico]] for [[Spain]]. He was ...
    12: ... with a letter saying that he was no longer the captain of the expedition, but Cortés' brother-in-law...
    15:
    18: ...gendary in book and film (even if she was not, as conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo wrote in his account "Th...
    22: ...uture (such as Quetzalcoatl's return). (This concept of Mexica cosmology is convincingly argued agains...
  14. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
    8: ...Guatemala]], made him one of the richest of the [[conquistador]]s in Mexico.
    12: ...[[Santa Barbara Channel]] and around [[Point Conception]], eventually sailing as far north as the [[Ru...
    19: ...e. One such example is [[Cabrillo College]] in [[Aptos, California]], another is the portion of the [[...
  15. History of Christianity (35391 bytes)
    8: ...] AD. Christianity brought from Judaism its [[scriptures]] (the [[Old Testament]]), its way of thinkin...
    12: ...ek translations of the Jewish scriptures (the [[Septuagint]]) as their own [[Bible]], and later also [...
    29: ...ation|Hellenistic]] Jews. In Acts 10:44ff Peter baptized [[Cornelius]] (traditionally held to be the f...
    88: ...l]] to be the origin of the story of [[John the Baptist]].
    90: ... starts to disappear), six months earlier; John baptises with water (the symbol of Ea) and Jesus with ...
  16. Native American (42651 bytes)
    21: ... ago]] or earlier [http://www.andaman.org/book/chapter53/luzia/luzia.htm]. Thus other possibilities, n...
    33: ...s from [[Europe]], possibly by peoples who had adopted a lifestyle resembling that of Inuits and Yupik...
    39: ...eas have been rediscovered, some with growing acceptance, as to the ultimate origin of Native American...
    51: ... goods with neighboring tribes, and more easily capture [[Game (food)|game]].
    76: ...chive/news/projects/native/day2_main.html] and adopt European-American culture, despite many of the pr...
  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)
    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...
    19: ...nco Capac and [[Mama Ocllo]] to emerge from the depths of [[Lake Titicaca]] and found the city of Cuzc...
    30: ...ly richer as subject rulers of the Inca. Most accepted the rule of the Inca as a ''fait accompli'' and...
    42: ...and. The Inca fought fiercely against the Spanish conquistadors, but could not simultaneously face the technolog...
    88: ...f other societies were directly used with the exception of [[Huari]] and [[Tiwanaku]] arts.
  20. Tenochtitlan (3092 bytes)
    3: ...destroyed in the [[1520s]] by [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]]s, [[Mexico City]] was erected on top of the rui...
    15: ...oatl]], welcomed him with great pomp. Some of the conquistadors had traveled as widely as [[Venice]] and [[Const...

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