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Exploration Of The Americas
The exploration of the Americas includes: *Exploration of North America ** ** Timeline of the European colonization of North America **Colonial history of the United States * Exploration of South America ** Age of Discovery#Inland Spanish expeditions (1519–1532) *European colonization of the Americas *Voyages of Christopher Columbus Americas The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.''Webster's New World College Dictionary'', 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. When viewed as a sing ... Americas-related lists Early modern period {{hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Exploration
Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some Expectation (epistemic), expectation of Discovery (observation), discovery. Organised exploration is largely a human activity, but exploratory activity is common to most organisms capable of directed Animal locomotion, locomotion and the ability to learn, and has been described in, amongst others, social insects foraging behaviour, where feedback from returning individuals affects the activity of other members of the group. Types Geographical Geographical exploration, sometimes considered the default meaning for the more general term exploration, is the practice of discovering lands and regions of the planet Earth remote or relatively inaccessible from the origin of the explorer. The surface of the Earth not covered by water has been relatively comprehensively explored, as access is generally relatively straightforward, but underwater and subterranean areas are far less known, and even at the surface, much is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.''Webster's New World College Dictionary'', 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. When viewed as a single continent, the Americas or America is the 2nd largest continent by area after Asia, and is the 3rd largest continent by population. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. Along with their Lists of islands of the Americas, associated islands, the Americas cover 8% of Earth's total surface area and 28.4% of its land area. The topography is dominated by the American Cordillera, a long chain of mountains that runs the length of the west coast. The flatter eastern side of the Americas is dominated by large river basins, such as the Amazon basin, Amazon, St. Lawrence River–Great Lakes, Mississippi River System, Mississippi, and Río de la Plata Basin, La Plata basins. Since the Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Exploration Of North America
European powers employed sailors and geographers to map and explore North America with the goal of economic, religious and military expansion. The combative and rapid nature of this exploration is the result of a series of countering actions by neighboring European nations to ensure no single country had garnered enough wealth and power from the Americas to militarily tip the scales over on the European continent. Pre-Columbian exploration According to the Sagas of Icelanders, Norsemen, Norse sailors (often called Vikings) from Iceland first settled Greenland in the 980s. L'Anse aux Meadows, an archaeological site on the northernmost tip of Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland, and a second site in southwestern Newfoundland, are the only known sites of a Norse village in North America outside of Greenland. These sites are notable for their possible connections with the attempted colony of Vinland established by Leif Erikson in 1003. There are also some claims that Polynesian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Timeline Of The European Colonization Of North America
This is a chronology and timeline of the European colonization of the Americas, with founding dates of selected European settlements. Pre–Columbus * 986: Norsemen settle Greenland and Bjarni Herjólfsson sights coast of North America, but doesn't land (see also Norse colonization of the Americas). * : Norse settle briefly in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. * : Norse colony in Greenland dies out. 15th century * 1491: Columbus sets sail aboard the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria. * 1492: Columbus reaches the Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola. * 1492: La Navidad is established on the island of Hispaniola; it was destroyed by the following year. * 1493: The colony of La Isabela is established on the island of Hispaniola. * 1493: Columbus arrives in Puerto Rico * 1494: Columbus arrives in Jamaica. * 1496: Santo Domingo, the first European permanent settlement, is built. * 1497: John Cabot reaches Newfoundland. * 1498: In his third voyage, Columbus reaches Trinidad and Tobago. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
