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Keywords Age of Discovery, exploration, Spanish explorers, Portuguese explorers, Prince Henry the Navigator, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, conquistadores, maritime ...
New claims that Portuguese and Spanish explorers discovered New Zealand a century before Abel Tasman sighted "a large land, uplifted high" have today been rubbished by a Kiwi historian.
Humans domesticated the sweet potato in the Peruvian highlands about 8000 years ago, and previous generations of scholars believed that Spanish and Portuguese explorers introduced the crop to ...
A Dictionary of Spanish and Spanish-American Mining, Metallurgical, and Allied Terms, to which some Portuguese and Portuguese - American (Brazilian) Terms are Added. By E. Halse. Pp. xiii + 380.
Juan Pablo Dabove, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado Boulder, passed away on Jan. 21, 2025. ... In this sequel, Dabove extended his exploration of banditry into the ...