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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
55: ...d sailed up it to [[Montreal]]; failed in an attempt to set up a colony
66: ...s lands and islands and established a colony on [[Hispaniola]]
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]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ...rary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the earth was round. The main debate was o...
7: ...ing the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|Ce...
13: It has generally been accepted that he was [[Genoa|Genovese]], although doubts...
43: ... distance to the Indies. Most scholars accepted [[Ptolemy]]'s claim that the terrestrial landmass (for...
46: Columbus accepted the calculations of [[Pierre d'Ailly]], that th... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
14: ...ified from other sources. It is now generally accepted by historians that no voyage was made in [[1497...
16: ...co River]] and returning to [[Spain]] by way of [[Hispaniola]]. Vespucci claimed, in a letter to Lorenzo di Me... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
4: ...ped conquer the [[Taino]]s of the eastern part of Hispaniola, and was rewarded with the governorship of the Pr... - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
1: ...], located south of [[Cuba]] and to the west of [[Hispaniola]], on which [[Haiti]] and the [[Dominican Republi... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
10: ...rld until 1506. He took part in the conquest of [[Hispaniola]] and [[Cuba]] and was granted a large estate of ...
12: ... with a letter saying that he was no longer the captain of the expedition, but Cortés' brother-in-law...
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22: ...uture (such as Quetzalcoatl's return). (This concept of Mexica cosmology is convincingly argued agains...
24: ...ing|scuttled]] (not burned as legend has it), except for one small ship with which to communicate with... - Solenodons (2732 bytes)
2: ... image | image = [[Image:Solen5.jpg]] | caption = Hispaniolan Solenodon, ''S. paradoxus''}}
22: ...paniolan Solenodon (''Solenodon paradoxus'') of [[Hispaniola]] (island shared by the [[Dominican Republic]] an... - List of island countries (6641 bytes)
112: *[[Hispaniola]] - [[Dominican Republic]] and [[Haiti]] - Mammal classification (78467 bytes)
5: ...stematization itself, partly through the new concept of [[cladistics]]. Though field work gradually ma...
9: ...Metatheria and the "placental" eutheria. No attempt is made here to further distinguish among the ord...
62: **Order [[Dermoptera]]
64: **Order [[Chiroptera]]
65: ***Family [[Pteropodidae]] - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
8: ... sailed with others on makeshift rafts in an attempt to reach [[Mexico]]. The group was shipwrecked on...
13: ...Native Americans. It is also said that he was accepted as a deity by some Native American tribes becau... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ... founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, an ex...
6: ...al. As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either ...
14: ...ás de Ovando y Cáceres]], the third Governor of Hispaniola. His paternal grandfather was a son of [[Rodrigo ...
18: ...ence as a notary, first in Seville and later in [[Hispaniola]], would give him a close acquaintance with the l...
20: ..., and mischievous. This was probably a fair description of a sixteen-year-old boy who had returned hom... - Medieval medicine (14745 bytes)
15: Starting in the areas least affected by the disruption of the fall of the western empire, a unified t...
74: ...he balance of humours. Physicians could also attempt surprisingly complex operations like [[trepanatio...
102: ...]s in a matter of [[month]]s. The [[island]] of [[Hispaniola]] had a [[population]] of 250,000 Native American...
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