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According to various sources, The earliest known exploration of Tennessee was conducted by Hernando de Soto in May, June, and July of 1540. Accordingly, the 700 Spaniards and their slaves landed in Tampa Bay and immediately struck north, eventually reaching, and held a winter HQ at the town of...

They are still mining Gold in various parts of Central and South America. What is the estimated amount?

What were the cultural, linguistic, governmental, political and ethnic ties between the south of France and northern Spain during the medieval period? I discussed this before in another thread of mine but I'm much more interested in learning more about this dynamic. Were both areas essentially...

It's pretty useless to bring other countries in the discussion since I think everyone here can recognize that the pioneers of the Age of Exploration were the Iberian kingdoms, what I'm going to ask you is something different, which was more important? Portugal or Spain? On one hand Portugal...

It's like with the Irish and the English, I hear they fight each other all the time. Any thoughts?

Why Spaniards defeated and conquered large and advanced Aztec and Inca Empires so easily but were unable to defeat and conquer 'less advanced' Mapuche indians?

The Philippines were part of the Spanish Empire in 1609, when the Spaniards expelled the Moriscos and the Marranos. Why did they not expell them too from the Pacific colony and install the Inquisition?

Thinking to the lands where I live, which were on the borderline of the Spanish domain in Northern Italy in XVII century, and considering the legacy that Spaniards left here [reminded also by Manzoni in his "Promessi Sposi"] ... I was wondering about what the Spanish domination left in the...

I was wondering how a relatively small group of Spaniards were able to conquer the Americas. I know that disease played a big factor but as far as technology and advancements, what did the Spaniards have? Also did they use alliances with different native groups in order to create conflict and...

This document is a work of Austin Craig. Craig was an Associate Professor of History at the University of the Philippines. This work was presented to the Philippine Academy at its open meeting in University Hall, Manila, October 13, 1914. The records hereinafter to be cited are for the most...

Why did they call the Spanish Spaniards?