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- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (3639 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[September 22]],[[1554]])...
3: [[Image:Coronado expedition.jpg|thumb|500px|The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542.]]
7: ... city, called [[Cibola]]. Of course this raised Coronado's interest, and he decided to try to get that...
9: ...Sonora]], then traveled upstream the Sonora, and crossed the [[Gila]] to Cibola, in the west of presen...
11: ...who would be shipping supplies for Coronado. [[Pedro de Tovar]] was sent northwest, and heard of a gre... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...thers. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reached the [[Amer...
2: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...ate was over whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or gett...
5: ...rica was known to the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[p...
9: ...large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans. - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: ...pes''' are a class of [[musical instrument]], [[aerophone]]s using enclosed [[reed (music)|reed]]s. T...
11: 5) Tenor drones<br>
12: 6) Bass drone<br>
16: ...[[melody]] is played, and most have at least one drone [[harmony]], although there are relatively many...
18: ...e sound, while chanters with a conical bore will produce a louder and brighter sound. - Ukraine (22193 bytes)
1: ...nd]], [[Slovakia]] and [[Hungary]] to the west, [[Romania]] and [[Moldova]] to the southwest and the [...
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34: | '''[[Gross domestic product|GDP]]''' (2004) <br /> - Total (PPP) <b...
37: ...Soviet Union|Independence]]'''<br> Date || From [[Soviet Union]]<br>[[August 24]] [[1991]] - Spain (36498 bytes)
1: ... the [[Islas Chafarinas|Chafarine]] islands, the "rocks" (es: ''pes'') of [[Pede V鬥z de la G...
20: ...s頌uis Rodr�ez Zapatero|Jos頌uis Rguez. Zapatero]] |
40: currency = [[Euro]] (€)<sup>2</sup> |
42: time_zone = [[Central European Time|CET]]<sup>3</sup> |
44: time_zone_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]] | - Crusade (28507 bytes)
2: ...Muslims]], but some were directed against other Europeans, such as the [[Fourth Crusade]] against [[Co...
6: == Historical background ==
7: ... violence. A plea for help from the Byzantine Emperor [[Alexius I]] in opposing [[Muslim]] attacks thu...
9: ...ts]] and some [[mercenaries]] from elsewhere in Europe in the fight against the Islamic [[Moors]]. In ...
11: ...me personally engaged in a dramatic religious controversy. The result was an awakening of intense Chri... - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...e [[Ottoman]]s and the [[Hohenzollern]]s, who had roots of power back to the days of the [[Crusade]]s,...
6: ...bsolutist]] [[monarchy]] in [[Europe]]. It would prove the catalyst for the [[Russian Revolution]], wh...
8: ...a tremendous tide of nationalism that swept the European continent at this time.
10: ...e front due to food shortages, [[genocide]], and ground combat.
16: ...erbalances that developed between the various [[Europe]]an powers after the defeat of France and forma... - Napoleonic Wars (44488 bytes)
3: ...the fall was also rapid, beginning with the disastrous invasion of [[Russia]], and Napoleon's empire u...
5: ...ctively, the nearly continuous period of warfare from [[April 20]], [[1792]], until [[November 20]], 1...
9: ...ars brought some great changes upon the face of Europe:
11: * France was no longer a dominant power in Europe, as it had been since the times of [[Louis XIV ...
12: ...oyal Navy]] held unquestioned naval superiority throughout the world, and the United Kingdom's industr... - Francisco Coronado (5090 bytes)
1: '''Francisco Vásquez de Coronado''' (ca. [[1510]] - [[September 22]],[[1554]])...
5: ...]. Coronado's friend, Antonio Mendoza appointed Coronado as the commander of an expedition to go and f...
8: ...ora]], then traveled upstream on the Sonora, and crossed the [[Gila]] to Cibola, in the west of presen...
10: ...ers in one of them, [[Tiguex]] (across the river from present-day [[Bernalillo]] near [[Albuquerque, N...
12: ... not even small amounts of gold could be found. Coronado returned to Tiguex, where his main force had ... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
2: ...] philosopher [[Plato]], who said that it was destroyed by possibly an [[earthquake]] or [[tsunami]] ...
5: ...een the ancient [[Athenians]] and the Atlantians around 9,000 years before [[Plato]]'s existence.
7: ... from his grandfather also named Critias, son of Dropides.
14: ...here at the inner hill the land was enclosed all round by alternate zones of sea and land larger and ...
17: ...s]], to where proud and warlike men used to come from the continent beyond the islands, in order to of... - Culture of Spain (17671 bytes)
1: ...ranean]] climate and geography have played strong roles in shaping its culture.
4: ...ain in 1854, after the first [[Carlist]] War]]A strong sense of regional identity exists in many regio...
8: ...gional identity: [[Andalusia]], [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]] and [[Navarre]] each have their own version of ...
10: ...spite a broad Spanish nationalist feeling, have strong regional identities: [[Cantabria]], [[Asturies]...
17: ...ects. (Spanish itself also has distinct dialects around the country, with the Andaluz dialect being cl... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
3: [[Image:Coronado-Remington.jpg|thumb|right|Coronado Sets Out to the North, by [[Frederic Remingto...
5: ...estern [[United States]] between 1540 and 1542. Coronado had hoped to conquer the mythical [[Seven Cit...
7: ==Background==
8: ...ta Rica]]. <ref> [http://genforum.genealogy.com/coronado/messages/30.html Origin of Vázquez de
9: Coronado family] </ref>
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