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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
- 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
- tough guy and the braggart, the rebel and the conquistador. In reality Newman was a generous heart, an actor of a dignity and style rare in Hollywood ...38 KB (5,689 words) - 17:42, 21 November 2022
- 1519. On November 6, 1528, shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca became the first known European in Texas. In 1685 René Robert ...36 KB (5,158 words) - 15:02, 30 April 2023
- John Edwards, [https://www.historytoday.com/archive/conquistador-society-spain-columbus-left A Conquistador Society? The Spain Columbus Left ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- Juan Ponce de León, a Spanish conquistador, named Florida in honor of his discovery of the land on April 2, 1513, during Pascua Florida, a Spanish ...40 KB (5,623 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- to be poor. He was a merchant seafarer, not a conquistador or a crusader on the Spanish model. He wrote of the Indians, They … brought us parrots ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- Tennessee is a state located in the Southern United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the Union. Tennessee is known as the ...47 KB (6,620 words) - 03:00, 19 April 2023
- El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America, bordering the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras ...41 KB (5,922 words) - 00:08, 13 February 2024
- #039;s The Royal Hunt of the Sun, playing conquistador Francisco Pizarro to David Carradine's Atahuallpa. Both performances were "stunning ...51 KB (7,432 words) - 21:43, 10 December 2023
- The Reconquista (a Spanish and Portuguese word for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several Christian kingdoms slowly ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth-largest in the world. It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078 ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
