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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
30: ...]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to ...
34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]]
53: ...ry]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[Atlantic]] islands)
66: ...s lands and islands and established a colony on [[Hispaniola]]
67: ...Pacific]], discovering or mapping many lands and islands - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
7: ...ing the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|Ce...
11: ...e]]s, exploitation of the Americas by Europe, and slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honour him fo...
13: ...s surname. The Latin roots of his name can be translated "Christ-bearer, Dove". Columbus' signature re...
27: ...ent a year on a ship bound towards [[Khios]] (an island in the [[Aegean Sea]]) and, after a brief visi...
35: ...a Islands]] and owned one of them ([[Porto Santo Island]]), but died when Felipa was a baby, leaving h... - Amerigo Vespucci (3736 bytes)
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: ...[[Agueybana]], and quickly gained control of the island. As a result, Ponce de Leon was named Governor...
7: ...lected Ponce de León to colonize and govern the island of Puerto Rico. In the meantime Diego Columbus...
9: ...ll of which he hoped to find at Bimini and other islands. The story of Ponce de León searching for th...
12: ... 1513. On [[March 27]] [[1513]], he sighted an [[island]], but sailed on without landing. Later, on Ap...
16: ...[Carib]]s of [[Guadalupe]] and to colonize the ''Island of Florida''. His expedition to Guadalupe in 1... - Jamaica (16893 bytes)
1: ...], located south of [[Cuba]] and to the west of [[Hispaniola]], on which [[Haiti]] and the [[Dominican Republi...
67: ...the massive use of imported [[Africa]]n [[slavery|slave]] labor.
69: ...reat of revolt. Following a series of rebellions, slavery was formally abolished in [[1838]].
71: Jamaica slowly gained increasing independence from the [[Uni...
82: ... a bipartisan joint committee of the Jamaican legislature in 1961-62, approved in the [[United Kingdom... - Hernan Cortes (17441 bytes)
10: ...d worked so well in the conquest of the [[Canary Islands|Canaries]] (eliminating the indigenous [[Guan...
18: ...had learned a Mayan dialect during seven years of slavery, though he proved less and less useful as it...
29: ...e locals planned to murder the Spaniards in their sleep. Although he did not know if this was true or ...
46: ...me of his death his estate contained at least 200 slaves who were either native Africans or of African...
52: ... – available as ''Letters from Mexico'' translated by Anthony Pagden (1986) ISBN 0300090943 - Solenodons (2732 bytes)
2: ... image | image = [[Image:Solen5.jpg]] | caption = Hispaniolan Solenodon, ''S. paradoxus''}}
22: ...don (''Solenodon paradoxus'') of [[Hispaniola]] (island shared by the [[Dominican Republic]] and [[Hai... - List of island countries (6641 bytes)
1: ...ical entities that are located on [[island]]s or island-[[continent]]s.
7: ...ough Greenland is usually considered the largest island
32: *[[Marshall Islands]]
47: *[[Solomon Islands]]
61: *[[Cook Islands]][[#Notes|?]] - Mammal classification (78467 bytes)
211: ***Family †[[Sloanbaataridae]]
338: *********Order [[Pilosa]]: anteaters, sloths, and relatives
345: ...*********Family †[[Megatheriidae]]: ground sloths
346: **********Family [[Megalonychidae]]: two-toed sloths
347: **********Family [[Bradypodidae]]: three-toed sloths - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
2: ...stern]] [[United States]] expeditionary logs as a slave servant in the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca...
5: ...to Azemmour from west Africa by the trans-Saharan slave trade. He was converted to [[Roman Catholic Ch...
8: ... enslaved by the Ananarivo of the Louisiana Gulf Islands, but they eventually escaped into the America... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
4: ...trate) of the second Spanish town founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third ...
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...
26: ... and strange unknown lands. He finally left for [[Hispaniola]] in 1504 where he became a colonist.
29: ...World]]" until he finally succeeded in reaching [[Hispaniola]] in a ship commanded by Alonso Quintero, who tri... - Medieval medicine (14745 bytes)
17: [[Anglo-Saxon]] translations of classical works like [[Dioscorides]] ''H...
19: ...entury]], where Latin, Greek and Arabic texts translated at the nearby monastic centre of [[Monte Cass...
94: ...ugh the body in veins and arteries. It was previously thought that blood was the product of [[food]] a...
102: ...]s in a matter of [[month]]s. The [[island]] of [[Hispaniola]] had a [[population]] of 250,000 Native American...
104: ...sease, religious practice, and innovations. Obviously, without medical geniuses and innovations, civil...
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