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- The first European to find the Falls was the Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541, after whom one of the falls on the Argentine ...10 KB (1,592 words) - 13:42, 4 February 2023
- Spanish controlled the port. In 1572, Conquistador Juan de Salcedo attacked ... He reported sending conquistador Juan de Salcedo with a small company ...13 KB (1,737 words) - 20:19, 3 May 2023
- Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475 – June 26, 1541) was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Civilization and founder of the city of Lima ...25 KB (4,083 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
- Juan de la Cosa (c. 1460 – February 28, 1510) was a Spanish cartographer, conquistador, and explorer. He made the earliest extant European ...8 KB (1,342 words) - 15:30, 1 February 2023
- The Historic Centre of Lima is the portion of the city of Lima, Peru, founded in 1535 by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro as La Ciudad ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 21:54, 31 January 2024
- Cuenca (full name Santa Ana de los cuatro ríos de Cuenca) is the third largest city in Ecuador in terms of population. It is located in the ...19 KB (2,779 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- annals, he was slain by Spanish Conquistador Don Pedro de Alvarado while waging battle against the Spaniards in the grasslands of El Pinal (Valley ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (ca. 1510 – September 22, 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and Governor of New Galicia, Mexico who between 1540 ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- Teotihuacán was the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas in the first half of the first millennium C.E.. It was also one of the largest ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- *Conquistador (1932) *Elpenor (1933) *Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City (1933) *Poems, 1924–1933 (1935) *Public Speech (1936) ...13 KB (2,029 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Yaqui indians.jpg|thumb|right|Yaqui people, c. 1910]] ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- Quinoa ( ˈkinwɑ KEEN-wah or /ˈkinoʊə/ KEE-no-uh, Spanish quinua) is a tall South American herb, Chenopodium quinoa in the goosefoot genus ...14 KB (2,175 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded the city in 1535, as ... rich and fabulous kingdom, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro (c. ...28 KB (4,030 words) - 08:43, 8 March 2023
- Old Havana ( La Habana Vieja ) describes the central area of the original city of Havana, Cuba. Havana is a city of great architectural character ...17 KB (2,656 words) - 00:04, 18 November 2022
- Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. These codices were written in Mayan hieroglyphic ...17 KB (2,631 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–January 15, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, colonial governor, and Conquistador. He is known principally for having ...34 KB (5,513 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- The Fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, came about through the manipulation of local factions and divisions by Spanish conquistador ...39 KB (6,310 words) - 01:38, 26 September 2023
- The term pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the Americas in the time before significant European influence. While technically ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 22:17, 30 November 2022
- until the arrival of the Spanish Conquistador Pedro de Alvarado (1485-1541), who subjugated the native states, beginning in 1523. In Spanish colonial ...18 KB (2,600 words) - 03:27, 5 March 2023
- The first European visitor to the area may have been conquistador Juan de Ayolas, who died in 1537. Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (Our Lady ...19 KB (2,690 words) - 18:39, 19 August 2023
