As a historian of colonial Latin America, I often begin such discussions by pointing to a peculiar document drafted several ...

Cook’s voyages helped guide generations of explorers and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. In 1513, Spanish ...

Cortés arrived in what is now Mexico in 1518 as commander of a mission to explore the region - rumoured among Europeans to hold great wealth - for Spanish colonisation. He and his men laid siege ...

Early Prescott settlers named streets after Spanish explorers – Captain Hernando Alacrón and General Francisco Coronado, who ...

“Women perfumed their hair with vanilla,” Haynes said. “The Aztecs used it to flavor a cacao beverage” known as xocolati, which enthralled the Spanish explorer, Hernan Cortez, who introduced vanilla ...

Spanish women played a critical yet lesser known ... ready to “enter the mouth of the Amazon and explore the river as far as the border region with Peru.” Brazil’s vast interior haunted ...

In the course of the Spanish Conquest, Aztec culture was almost ... when western Europeans sailed off to explore, and in some cases conquer, the world. Today, I'm not on ship with the conquerors ...

Since 1937, the U.S. has observed the holiday on the second Monday of the month, commemorating the explorer’s 1492 arrival in ...

Playwright Oliver Mayer’s “The Man in the Maze” imagines a parallel historical narrative to the murderous conquest of Mexico by Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes and his soldiers.

The Italian explorer who set out across the Atlantic ... much of the world beyond Europe into two halves: one for the Spanish crown, the other for the Portuguese. Spaniards lay claim to almost ...

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