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Vikings
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The First Explorers ?
- Hoei-Shin
- In AD 499, a Buddhist missionary, Hoei-Shin, came back
from a long voyage and told of a strange people in a strange
land...
- China
- Between 1405 and 1433, Emperor Chu Ti's Treasure Fleet
of the Dragon Throne ruled the entire South Pacific and
the Indian Ocean...
- Did
the Chinese Discover America? - Why couldn't a person
from China have been the real discoverer of the America's?
The Conquistadors
- Agustn
Rodrguez - Explorer and leader of the Rodrguez-Snchez
expedition,qv was engaged in missionary work along the
Ro Conchos in northern Mexico.
- Alonso
lvarez de Pineda - Commanded a Spanish expedition
that sailed along the Gulf of Mexico coastline from Florida
to Cabo Rojo, Mexico, in 1519.
- Andrs
Dorantes de Carranza - Early Spanish explorer, a native
of the southwestern Castilian town of Gibralen, was the
son of Pablo Dorantes.
- Antonio
de Espejo - Born in Torre Milano, a suburb of Crdova,
Spain. He went to Mexico in 1571 with Archbishop Moya
y Contreras as an officer of the Inquisition and there
became a cattleman.
- Antonio
Gutirrez de Humaa - Second in command of the illegal
expedition of Francisco Leyva de Bonillaqv in 1594.
- Bartolomeu
Dias - A famous Portuguese navigator of the fifteenth
century, discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope; died at
sea, 29 May, 1500.
- Bartolomeu
Dias - Well known portuguese navigator. It is not
known where or when he was born.
- Bartolomeu
Dias - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- Bartolomeu
Dias - (en Algarve 1450-au large du cap de Bonne-Espérance
1500) Navigateur portugais.
- Diego
Prez de Luxn - Entered the recorded annals of Texas
and New Mexico history through a narrow window of time,
but his observations during the years 1582-83 are nonetheless
very important.
- Dorantes
de Carranza - Letters on the Texas Explorers.
- Estevanico - From being
a slave to being a explorer.
- Florida History - - Spanish Conquest
of Native America. Spaniards explored America in the 1540's
on trails that became our highways. Spaniards explored
America in the 1540's on trails that became our highways.
- Francisco
de Garay - The Handbook of Texas.
- Francisco
Leyva de Bonilla - A Portuguese captain in the service
of Spain, was dispatched in 1594 by Governor Diego de
Velasco of Nueva Vizcaya to pursue beyond the frontiers
of that state a rebellious band of Indians that had committed
acts of theft.
- Francisco
Snchez - A captain in the Spanish army, born about
1512, was called Chamuscado because of his flaming red
beard.
- Francisco
Sanchez and Agustn Rodrguez - The advance of the
northern frontier of the viceroyalty of New Spain in the
sixteenth century led to the founding in 1567 of Santa
Brbara.
- Francisco Vasquez
de Coronado - Seeking the fabled Seven Golden Cities
of Cibola, his expedition of 1,400 men and 1,500 animals
found only poor Indian villages...
- Juan
de Oate - A native of Culhuacan, a short distance
north of Mexico City, was a Mexican Indian servant of
Antonio Gutirrez de Humaa,qv.
- Luis
de Carvajal y de la Cueva (ca. 1540-1590). Governor,
adventurer, slave trader, and the first Spanish subject
to enter Texas.
- Luis
de Moscoso - Luis de Moscoso Alvarado, who assumed
command of Hernando De Soto's expedition upon the latter's
death, was born in Badajoz, Spain, in 1505.
- Marcos
de Niza - A controversial Franciscan explorer, may
have led the first European expedition to explore purposefully
what is today the American Southwest.
- Os
Descobrimentos Portugueses - Navegadores.
- Pnfilo
de Narvez - Tall, robust and fair with a great red
beard and a voice that sounded very deep and hoarse as
if it came from a vault.1 Narvez was born in Spain around
1475. Around the age of 23 he left for the New World.
- People and History of
Mexico - Time Line Overview.
- Publius
Historicus - Le XVIe siècle est pour l'Europe
celui de la Renaissance et des Grandes Découvertes,
de l'Humanisme et des débuts de la Science moderne.
Also
in English.
- Santa Elena
- History of the French Settlement.
- Spanish Missions
- In Georgia.
- Timicuan
- In the early sixteenth century native people who spoke
the Timucua language occupied most of the northern one-third
of peninsular Florida (east of the Aucilla River).
- Tristn
de Luna - Member of a Castilian family of the Borobia
estates in the villas of Cicia and Borobia in Spain.
- Jusepe
Gutirrez (Jusephe, Jos, Joseph) - A native of Culhuacan,
a short distance north of Mexico City, was a Mexican Indian
servant.
- Vasco Nuez
de Balboa - Balboa sailed to Hispaniola in 1501 on
an expedition under Rodrigo de Bastidas and Juan de la
Cosa.
- Vicente
de Zaldvar - The younger, Spanish explorer and soldier,
was probably born in Zacatecas, a mining town on the frontier
of northern Mexico, about 1573.
 
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