1495, three years after Columbus's discovery of the new world, Maximo Zamoria, a Spanish conquistador, set off to the Americas in search of gold and glory. Maximo gathered a crew of one hundred strong and well-trained men, along with his right hand man, Samuel. With the permission of the Spanish king, Maximo and his men gathered enough supplies for half a year of travel, and got the finest Spanish sailing vessel to set off for the new world.
A colonizer and statesman, Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala was one of the most talented and capable of the many native Mexicans involved in Texas ' struggle for independence from Mexico. He was born in the villiage of Tecoh in what is now the state of Yucatan, Mexico, on October 3, 1789. While still in his teens, de Zavala became an ardent advocate of democratic reforms. As a result of his political activism, he was imprisoned in 1814 for three years. When released, he re-entered politics and by 1820 represented Yucatan in the Spanish Cortes in Madrid.
Juan Seguin was an important part to history. He was in three wars, he was a judge, and he served for rights, independence, and justice. Juan was was a happy man that died at the age of eighty-three and got happily married. Juan Seguin had one brother and one sister. Juan got his first horse on his twelfth birthday.
Francisco pizarro, Was a villain and francisco was a spanish navigator. That traveled through much of the pacific coast along Peru. Francisco traveled and captured the inca empire. Which was a villainous act.
The natives had attacked first, which resulted in backfire from Vespucci out of self defense. Vespucci had a just reason to “murder” the people, and even then he just wanted to scare them off since they had been so kind to him and his men
Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca was from Spain in the 1490’s. He was born in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. De Vaca had starved his crew on his expedition. But it wasn’t only his expedition, it was also Narvaez as well. They had brought a bunch of food for everyone, but that’s not what De Vaca wanted to do.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly across the whole Atlantic Ocean or discover America? Well that’s what Charles Lindbergh and Christopher Columbus achieved. They achieved the goals of their lives and helped the people of the world entirely and changed everybody’s lives. I’m sure everyone knows who Christopher Columbus is, of course, he supposedly found America. Born in Genoa, Italy on October 31, 1451 he was the child of Domenico Colombo(father) and Susanna Fontanarossa(mother).
Christopher Columbus as we know is the historical person credited for the discovery of the New World. Zheng He was a Hui-Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. Each men and their fleets had two completely different reason for their travel. Christopher Columbus purpose was to find a new trade way to the Asian countries. Zheng He's purpose was to enlarge empires control of seaway trade.
Giovanni “John” Caboto Giovanni “John” Cabot was a successful, and adventurous Italian explorer/navigator, who is known for making big discoveries. He is known for discovering and claiming land in Canada, and somewhere in North America off the coast of the Labrador Peninsula. John Cabot was raised in Bristol, England and was born into a wealthy family. His family would buy spices and sell them, (at the time spices were really expensive and rare to find). In addition, just like Christopher Columbus he was search for Asia (but actually founded North America), and was also in search for the Northwest Passage.
ANDREAS VESALIUS Andreas Vesalius, the father of modern anatomy was born in Brussels in 1514 and died in 1564. Throughout his life of 49 years, Vesalius challenged medical theories with a thirst for learning and discovery. Born into a wealthy family with his father as a pharmacist at the court of Margret of Austria, he received a privileged education from six years old. In 1537, Vesalius gained his doctorate and became a professor of Surgery and Anatomy at the University of Padua. He valued lifelong learning which contributed to his revolutionary works and methods demonstrating the spirit of a Renaissance man.
Christopher Columbus was an explorer and navigator born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy. When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in 1492, he hoped to reach eastern Asia. He thought he had reached Asia when he landed on an island in the Caribbean Sea. In fact he had opened up to Europeans a new world with two continents—North America and South America—and many islands.
The topic for the descriptive essay for this course will focus on my trip to the Mexican Riviera last January. As I have never been somewhere tropical before, or on many vacations at all, this week long experience made a lasting impression. From waking up and seeing the sun rise over the oceans horizon to having a fine cigar and snifter of cognac under the stars at night, this essay hopes to describe the amazing experience that affected me
With the help of many artist and the famous vallenato festival, all 4 styles of vallenato, Puya, Merengue, Paseo and son reached international recognition while simultaneously displaying cultural pride. Vallenato puya is one of the oldest style of vallenato and is characterized as being in triple meter with few lyrics. Its fast paced is meant to show off the virtuosity of the accordion. This style was able to reach international recognition because of the famous vallenato festival held in Colombia every year in which hundreds of people unite to play and listen to vallenato, plus it is now transmitted all over media and the radio all over the world. This demonstrates cultural pride because many dedicate time to attend and participate
Structural Welding Structural Welders work in the field of welding together structural components temporarily tacked into place beforehand. Welding can be traced back to ancient times. Some of the earliest examples come from the Bronze Age. Small circular boxes made of gold formed by pressure welding lap joints. These boxes are more than 2000 years old.
He stated that in the nearly forty years following Columbus making landfall, the Spaniards did nothing but “dismember, slay, perturb, afflict, torment, and destroy the Indians by all manner of cruelty (las Casas, p.2).” In another section of his journals, las Casas goes into extensive detail about how the populous of the magnificent islands of Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Bahamas were all nearly wiped out due to the barbaric behaviors and tendencies of the Spanish settlers. As I
