Scientific meeting on assessing the settlement of Solutreans in America; Controversy and debates on ancient settlement and people in America. INSET: Australasian Roots Proposed for `Luzia'.HoldenConstanceEBSCO_AspScienceHolden C. Were Spaniards among the first Americans? Science. 1999; 286 :1467–...
After investigations by generations of scholars, the case of the prehistoric human adventure in the deserts of North America has emerged as a rich, if largely unresolved detective story, complete with abundant and often puzzling clues, no living witnesse
in most of the warmer parts of the world.The ancient Greeks and Romans knew about oranges.It is possible that oranges were carried from India to Western Asia,and then to all of Europe.Spaniards (西班牙人) took the sour orange to the West Indies and from there to Florida,in America. ...
Ecuador was again a pivotal territory, and was again contested by outside powers. Two great generals shared the glory of South America's liberation: Bolívar, a Creole from Venezuela; and San Martín, a Spanish officer, born in Buenos Aires, who defected to serve his native land. Starting a...
000 to less than 500. In 1510, the Spaniards began to import their first African slaves from the West Coast of Africa to work in the gold mines. The French, who came in 1625 and changed the name of the island to Saint Domingue, fought the Spaniards to keep a hold on part of the ...
” Valente draws consolation from the fact that distant memories of life on land remain in the Guna people’s oral traditions. Their ancestors moved on to the islands to flee the Spaniards and to escape malaria “so life on dry land is not entirely alien”. His dream, which draws ...
How did Native American cultures adapt their way of life to the geographic and climatic conditions of the regions they settled in? How did the Bantu migrations influence Africa? How did the Spaniards change the Indigenous peoples' religion?
Instead of being slaughtered, “all that Pedro Menéndez had to do in the next couple of days was to walk up to Fort Caroline, which now had very few soldiers inside, and conquer it without even shedding a drop of Spaniards' blood,” says. Arbesú. ...
Cortez also had people of African descent with them on their ships. But the first named black person to set foot in America was Estevanico (an enslaved servant) who came in 1520 after a shipwreck on Galveston Island (which is now apart of Texas). Estevanico and 3 Spaniards ...
When he demanded women and baggage carriers of chief Tuscaloosa at the Choctaw town of Moma Bina, a battle ensued, and the Spaniards' baggage train was burned in a fire that also destroyed Moma Bina. The armored Spanish war horses struck terror in the Choctaws, who had never seen horses ...