Search results for "Conquistador" - New World Encyclopedia
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- In September 1540, under orders from the conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado to search for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola, Captain ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 20:27, 13 September 2021
- Mexico and Potosí, Bolivia. The conquistador Francisco Pizarro was said to have resorted to having his horses shod with silver horseshoes because ...20 KB (2,849 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- of the potato came in 1537 from the Spanish conquistador Castellanos, who discovered the tuber when his group raided a village in South America. After ...20 KB (3,010 words) - 05:53, 30 November 2022
- Pedro de Valdivia, often referred to as the Conquistador of Chile, in January 1550. He was tried under Mapuche law and executed. Their victory was ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes Mountains ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and his brothers, who were attracted by reports of a rich and fabulous kingdom, arrived in the country ...22 KB (3,238 words) - 06:49, 12 January 2024
- option mapped by game theory, the Spanish conquistador Cortes burned his ships barring any possibility that his small force of men could retreat under ...30 KB (4,403 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
- of the New Frontier”) by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia in 1541, on Huelén Hill (later renamed Saint Lucia Hill or Cerro Santa ...25 KB (3,606 words) - 18:44, 25 January 2024
- Category:Public Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Cannibals.23232.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Cannibalism in Brazil ...27 KB (4,188 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- Vásquez de Coronado, a Spanish conquistador. In that same period, Hernando de Soto crossed in a west-northwest direction in what is now Oklahoma ...26 KB (3,847 words) - 07:33, 4 January 2024
- Rubber is an elastic, hydrocarbon polymer that occurs as a milky, colloidal suspension (known as latex) in the sap of several varieties of plants ...28 KB (4,420 words) - 20:57, 21 December 2022
- The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea," bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- Conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (1465–1524) founded Havana on August 25, 1515, on the southern coast of the island, near the present ...29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican culture, noted for having the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas ...31 KB (4,849 words) - 02:21, 9 November 2022
- South America [[Image:LocationSouthAmerica.png|190px]] {| style="background: transparent; text-align: left; table-layout: auto; border-collapse: ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Hopi |image=[[Image:HopiWomensDance.1879 ...33 KB (5,396 words) - 13:43, 2 February 2024
- to its capital and largest city. Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León became the island's first governor to take office, while Vicente ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- In 1531 Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo claimed Chichén Itzá and intended to make it the capital of Spanish Yucatán, but after a ...32 KB (4,966 words) - 20:59, 9 December 2023
- Quito, officially San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in northern Ecuador in ...31 KB (4,586 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2023
- army lacked nothing in equipage. In true conquistador style, he took as hostage a chief named Tuscaloosa (Black Warrior), demanding of him carriers ...38 KB (5,802 words) - 17:09, 10 December 2023
