VERACRUZ, Mexico — Modern American history started here half a millennium ago. On Good Friday in 1519, the renegade Spaniard Hernan Cortes came ashore and founded Veracruz (Spanish for “True Cross” in ...
Loosely defined, the historical Age of Exploration lasted for 200 years, from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the first attempt to chart Australia in 1644. In all that time, the explorer who ...
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