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Typis Transacta Navigatio
1500 map by Juan de la Cosa
EXPLORERS AND CONQUISTADORS
Exploration:
The Americas
Hernán
Cortés
Juan
de Grijalva
Pedro
de Alvarado
Bartolome
de las Casas
Alvar
Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490-1557)
Francisco
de Montejo
Francisco
Pizarro
Juan
Ponce de Leon
Gonzalo
de Sandoval
Cristobal
de Olid
Diego
Velazquez
[Francisco Hernández de Córdoba]
Headless
remains of Nicaragua's conquistador founder discovered (Miami Herald,
May 22, 2000)
Henry
VII, First Letters Patent Granted to John Cabot and His Sons (1496)
ARTICLES
Black
Conquistadors: Armed Africans in Early Spanish America
'Conquistadors':
A Conquest Whose Daring Matched Its Cruelty (New York Times,
May 6, 2001)
'Conquistadors':
PBS Examines the Spanish Invasion of the New World (New York
Times, May 9, 2001)
Disease
Transfer at Contact
The
Introduction of the Horse into the Western Hemisphere
The
Map That Named America May Now Call It Home (New York Times,
Sept. 4, 2001)
Encomienda
or Slavery? The Spanish Crown's Choice of Labor Organization in Sixteenth-Century
Spanish America
RELIGION
Vatican
Is Investigating the Inquisition, in Secret (New York Times,
Oct. 31, 1998)
VIDEOS
Conquista
De América y sus Consecuencias (52:51 min.)
