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Hace 5 días · The Spanish conquest of Yucatán was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities in the Yucatán Peninsula, a vast limestone plain covering south-eastern Mexico, northern Guatemala, and all of Belize.
Hace 1 día · The Crusades of 1239–1241. The Crusades of 1239–1241, also known as the Barons' Crusade, were a series of crusades to the Holy Land that, in territorial terms, were the most successful since the First Crusade. [151] The major expeditions were led separately by Theobald I of Navarre and Richard of Cornwall. [152]
Hace 5 días · The House of Habsburg ( / ˈhæpsbɜːrɡ /, German: Haus Habsburg, pronounced [haʊ̯s ˈhaːpsˌbʊʁk] ⓘ ), also known as the House of Austria, [note 6] is one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history. [3] [4]
Hace 6 días · Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca first set foot on land that would become Texas in 1528, when his crude raft ran aground near Galveston Island. The raft held survivors of an ill-fated Spanish expedition to settle Florida. Cabeza de Vaca then embarked upon what one scholar described as "the most remarkable [journey] in the record ...
Hace 4 días · Aztec pleasure gardens. Tenochtitlan was a garden city, and the Aztecs/Mexica, in Jacques Soustelle’s words ‘had a positive passion for flowers’. This may hardly be surprising given that 1 in 10 of all the 250,000 species of plants in the world are found in Mexico - and half of these are ‘endemic’ to the country (only to be found in ...
Hace 4 días · By the 1540s, Nostradamus had settled in Salon-de-Provence, married, and started a family. It was here that he began his career as an astrologer, casting horoscopes for the wealthy and writing his first almanacs. These publications contained predictions of the future and were very popular, leading to his introduction to the royal court.
Hace 4 días · Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008, ISBN: 9780754657897; 210pp.; Price: £55.00. Glenn Richardson’s latest contribution to early modern Anglo-French relations comes in the form of this edited volume covering nearly three centuries of contact between England and France from 1420 to 1700. The Contending Kingdoms is essentially the proceedings of a ...
