(redirected fromHow did America get its name?) Dictionary Thesaurus Amerigo Vespucci BirthdayThursday, March 09, 1454 BirthplaceFlorence, Republic of Florence, in present-day Italy DiedThursday, February 22, 1512 NationalityItalian, Florentine
The Turkish, for their part, call turkey "hindi," the Turkish name for India. The reference to India probably comes from the old, wrong idea that the New World was in Eastern Asia. The French call it "dinde," a name that also connects the bird to India. "D'Inde" means "from India...
his hesitation did not go unnoticed. After Richthofen passed away in the autumn of 1905,another German geographer,Hermann, published a monograph named "The Ancient Silk Road between China and Syria" firstly in 1910, which has made the term "Silk Road" gradually known. Afterwards, in 1938, Her...
Waldseemüller labeled the part of the world that he envisioned as explored by Vespucci, America, feminizing the Latin form of Vespucci's given name, Americus. He chose the feminine form to be consistent with the Latinized names of other countries at the time, such as Europa and Asia. It ...
important to remember that Christopher Columbus, despite landing in the Bahamas in 1492, believed for more than a decade that he had found a western route to India. Even after numerous expeditions to parts of the Caribbean and America, he remained certain that he had made his way to Asia. ...
How did the Yangtze River get its name?Etymology of the Yangtze River:With a length of 6300 km, the Yangtze River is the longest river in China and Asia and the third longest river in the world that flows completely within a country....
The name Laos is derived from the Laotian people, an ethnicity that make up more than half the population of Laos. These people migrated to southeast Asia from China between the 8th and 10th centuries CE. They are called Ai Lao in Chinese and Isan people in Thailand. Both the Lao and Is...
2.Why did you understand him/her? 3.How did you feel after that? I still remember that unforgettable experience. 参考范文 I still remember that unforgettable experience. Last Friday,on a P.E. class,my classmate Tom knocked me down while we were running on the playground. I felt so hurt...
The resulting nickname, "Spanish flu," did not go over well in Spain. Medical professionals and officials protested that its people were being inappropriately stigmatized. In an Oct. 1, 1919, "Letter from Madrid" published in the Bulletin of the American Medical Association, an official said th...
How Did Mahjong Get Its Name? Mahjong is probably of 19th Century origin. It is a Western version of a Chinese game and is played with 136 to 144 pieces or tiles, similar to dominoes. These are engraved with Chinese symbols and characters and divided into suits and honors. The object of...