• Potatoes are a distinctly New World food, first brought to Europe by Spanish explorers and sliced and fried in Galicia in the 16th century, but the crispy little salt delivery vehicles didn't really take off until Spanish colonists brought them to Belgium, which was called the Spanish Netherlands at the time, just to confuse us in the future. (cracked.com)
  • That in the 16th century, London dockworkers were paid their bonuses in cloves? (silkroadspices.ca)
  • Dutch tulips are widely considered to have been imported from Turkey around the 16th Century. (hatfield-herts.co.uk)
  • The Fleet was the largest of its time in the 16th century. (salemwitchtrials.com)
  • And back in the 15th and 16th century CE there were several large and powerful land-based empires: Aztecs and Incas and Ming-Chinese and Ottomans, Safavid Persians, Mughals, Songhais, and so on. (justworldnews.org)
  • Western history books make a lot out of Vasco da Gama, the 15th and 16th century Portuguese explorer, being the first international trader to open up East Africa. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • And around the turn of the 16th century, Columbus and da Gama (and, a little later, Magellan ) tied together the world in a way that hadn't occurred before. (historyextra.com)
  • His explorations paved the way for Portugal's dominance in the Indian Ocean trade during the 16th century. (thetimelinegeek.com)
  • Before European explorers arrived in the New World, the potato had already spread through the Andes and into Central America after being initially domesticated in ancient South America. (top-list.co)
  • However, chilli peppers (Capsicum family) are native to Central and South America, where they had been cultivated for centuries. (hatfield-herts.co.uk)
  • Chilies are native to South America, where people have been cultivating and trading them for at least 6,000 years. (time.com)
  • Once they were domesticated, they spread very quickly around South America and into Central America. (time.com)
  • Only five of Capsicum's 25 species have been cultivated, and in South America, where most of the world's wild chilies are still found, chilies' shapes and colors are far more varied than the classic curved red or green ones of Mexican cooking or the small bullet-shaped "bird's-eye" chilies used in Thai cooking, or the sweet green and orange bell peppers or capsicums found in a million salads. (time.com)
  • Calyceraceae, family of small and economically unimportant dicotyledonous flowering plants containing six genera (Boöpis, Calycera, Acicarpha, Acarpha, Gamocarpha, and Moschopsis) with 60 species distributed in Central and South America. (britannica.com)
  • The region is located southeast of Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north and west of South America. (solarnavigator.net)
  • During his third voyage(1498-1500), Columbus explored further along the coast of South America. (thetimelinegeek.com)
  • The Silk Road was an important route connecting Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe. (silkroadspices.ca)
  • The first country that successfully circumnavigated Africa was Portugal, and in 1497 four vessels under the command of Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, eventually sailing across the Indian Ocean to Calicut, India. (silkroadspices.ca)
  • China's Ming Dynasty sent the Ming Treasure Voyages across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean in the 15th century, making it as far the east coast of Africa . (travelzom.com)
  • The European Age of Discovery began in 1415, as the Portuguese captured the Moorish port of Ceuta in North Africa, marking the start of the Portuguese Empire . (travelzom.com)
  • 1415 was the year in which royal Portuguese adventurers/conquerors started to capture port cities in Africa, which they continued to do, going ever further southward, throughout the century. (justworldnews.org)
  • It's what the French did in North Africa and the Indian Ocean… And those cruel, violence-based traditions carried on and became normalized within those empires and their spawn. (justworldnews.org)
  • But Crowley would like to remind us that the Spanish empire in the Americas was an exercise in catching up to the Portuguese, who had spent decades attempting to get around Africa. (portugalhoy.com)
  • The Portuguese travelled out of a messianic zeal to wipe out Islam, and to join with the mythological "Prester John" (Preste João), a supposed Christian king in Africa, in order to squeeze the Muslims from both ends. (portugalhoy.com)
  • And take they could, thanks to their superior firepower and flamboyant courage, all honed by decades of crusading against Muslim powers in North Africa. (portugalhoy.com)
  • China's presence in Africa dates back centuries and spanned a number of ancient dynasties. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • African, Chinese, American and Australian experts gathered to examine and debate recent archaeological and historical evidence of China's ancient cultural and economic relationship with Africa. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • These voyages of discovery by the Chinese to the African Red Sea coast, East Africa and its Indian Ocean islands, required sea-worthy vessels. (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • 705The Jewish Western Sudanese Queen Dahia-Al Kahina, [xxxiii] dies after fighting against the Arab incursion in North Africa, driving the Arab army northward into Tripolitania.Other wives of African kings committed suicide to avoid falling into the hands of the Berbers and Arabs who showed no mercy to the people who would not be converted to Islam. (howardbloom.net)
  • He met with King João II of Portugal, but the Portuguese were exploring the route around Africa, and were not interested. (thepoliticalcesspool.org)
  • The 'Old World' is that quaint and Eurocentric term that refers to Europe, much of Asia and north Africa. (intoday.in)
  • Ibn Battuta's journey began with a pilgrimage to Mecca, then further into North Africa, visiting places like Tlemcen, Tunis, Alexandria, and Cairo. (thetimelinegeek.com)
  • In the 18th century, King Charles XII of Sweden was temporarily exiled to the Ottoman Empire (you know how these things go), where he discovered the real Turkish delight: meatballs. (cracked.com)
  • By the 18th century, they'd made their way to France, where Americans noticed them, which is factually the moment when everything starts existing. (cracked.com)
  • The potato had become popular in France by the late 18th century and was widely consumed in Britain and Ireland. (top-list.co)
  • In the 18th century, the English colonies brought the potato from the Old World to the New. (top-list.co)
  • The United States began its entry into the world spice industry in the 18th century, when American businessmen began their own spice companies and started dealing directly with Asian growers rather than the established European companies. (silkroadspices.ca)
  • For this article, we focus on seaborne exploration and consider the Age of Exploration to end with the navigators Cook, Vancouver, Tasman and Flinders exploring the Pacific in the late 18th century. (travelzom.com)
  • But by the late 18th century, China found itself at Europe's mercy. (americanthinker.com)
  • We have traced its development by examining archival documents to understand the life of the institute and the diseases that were diagnosed and treated from the 18th century to the first half of the 20th century. (bvsalud.org)
  • Vindaloo" is actually a mispronunciation of the Portuguese name ( carne de vinha d'alhos ) of the dish, which was brought to India by Portuguese explorers in the 15th century. (cracked.com)
  • Explorers in the late 15th, 16th, nad early 17th centuries began the European phase of American history. (salemwitchtrials.com)
  • The Portuguese explorers were the ones who did the bulk of the discovering. (portugalhoy.com)
  • The explorers were amazed by what they encountered in the Indian Ocean. (portugalhoy.com)
  • The main purpose of the exploration of the West African coast was to attain as soon as possible the Indian Ocean and its profitable trade. (aph.pt)
  • The Age of Discovery , also known as the Age of Exploration , was the period from the 15th century to the late 18th, when Europeans set sail to discover and explore other lands. (travelzom.com)
  • Zheng He led seven great voyages of exploration into the southern seas and the Indian Ocean, reaching the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the eastern African coasts. (americanthinker.com)
  • Vasco Da Gama was a Portuguese explorer whose pioneering voyages forever altered the course of global exploration and trade. (thetimelinegeek.com)
  • The Church of North India has dioceses in the state and is a large Protestant church with full communion with the Anglican Church. (wikipedia.org)
  • Most of the history of the church in India is lost between the 9th and 14th centuries, as Persia went over to Nestorianism in 800 AD. (wikipedia.org)
  • The name Bombay East Indians was taken in the British India to differentiate native Christians of Greater Bombay, from those of Goa and Mangalore who came to Mumbai in search of jobs, on the occasion of golden jubilee of Queen Victoria. (wikipedia.org)
  • They belong to several Protestant denominations, but mainly the Church of North India. (wikipedia.org)
  • The first Protestant mission to India was the American Marathi Mission. (wikipedia.org)
  • When Christopher Columbus set out in search of India, he found America instead, and brought back to Spain the fruits and vegetables he found, including chiles (he called them "peppers", perhaps to soothe his disappointment at not finding peppercorns, and the term "chile pepper" persists to this day). (silkroadspices.ca)
  • Today, India is the world's largest producer of Chillies, and South Indian cooking in particular is known for its fiery seasoning. (hatfield-herts.co.uk)
  • The Portuguese are also credited with introducing Pineapple, Papaya (or Papaw), and Cashew to India. (hatfield-herts.co.uk)
  • Then in 1498 their Vasco Da Gama took a conquest fleet around Africa's southern tip and across the Indian Ocean to start conquering and despoiling port cities in India. (justworldnews.org)
  • Second, Columbus, at least, continued to believe that he had found India, despite the utter lack of black pepper and other Indian goodies known in Europe. (intoday.in)
  • In the process that historians somewhat Eurocentrically call the Columbian Exchange - the crossing over of species and culture between the 'Old' and 'New' worlds beginning in the 15th century - the potato reached India. (intoday.in)
  • Lizzie Collingham, in her book Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors , says it's almost certain that it was the Portuguese who introduced the batata to India, although it gradually became part of Indian cuisine only after the British taught their cooks what to do with it. (intoday.in)
  • He made a second voyage(1502-1503) to India, this time as the appointed Portuguese Viceroy of India. (thetimelinegeek.com)
  • After returning from India, Vasco da Gama held various administrative positions, including advisor to the king on Indian affairs. (thetimelinegeek.com)
  • Christopher Columbus is considered to be the one who introduced them to Europe in the 15th Century (although there are indications that it may have been brought across at an earlier date). (hatfield-herts.co.uk)
  • As an American, I grew up with the story of Christopher Columbus, whose voyage in 1492 is held to have changed the world. (portugalhoy.com)
  • Confused with Egyptians, hence the word "gypsy," they actually migrated about 1,500 years ago from the northwestern Indian subcontinent. (ileanajohnson.com)
  • Later, they were introduced to the Asian subcontinent by Portuguese colonists at Goa. (hatfield-herts.co.uk)
  • The Gujarati people, or Gujaratis , are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who reside in or can trace their ancestry or heritage to a region of the Indian subcontinent primarily centered in the present-day western Indian state of Gujarat . (wikipedia.org)
  • And so, in the 19th century, the potato eventually became a part of Bengali cuisine, and spread from there to many other culinary traditions of the subcontinent. (intoday.in)
  • He travelled to Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent, including the city of Delhi. (thetimelinegeek.com)
  • Rroma have migrated to the United States in the 19th century. (ileanajohnson.com)
  • MATERIALS: An adult male, skeleton 403, exhumed from the Christian cemetery associated with the church dedicated to Saint Mamede (Travanca, Santa Maria da Feira), dated from the 17th-19th century AD. (bvsalud.org)
  • Furthermore, the inhumation of a leprosy sufferer in a 17th-19th century AD Christian parish cemetery is deeply imbued with social meaning. (bvsalud.org)
  • Also, further documentary research is needed in order to expand appreciation of the epidemiological and social impact of leprosy in the 17th-19th century AD Portugal. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the beginning of the 15th century, as a result of the crisis felt through all of Europe during the 14th century, Portugal was dealing with serious economical problems. (aph.pt)
  • The first takes the form of oral narratives written down in Icelandic in the 13th and 14th centuries - accounts passed down through families from one generation to the next, about ancestors' accomplishments. (historyextra.com)
  • Baptism of D. Afonso Henriques by Saint Gerard, Archbishop of Braga, 17th century, attributed to Simão Álvares (active 1638-1657), Museum of Alberto Sampaio, Guimarães. (aph.pt)
  • His land claims were not colonized until the 17th century. (salemwitchtrials.com)
  • Bombay East Indians are generally more anglicised than other Maharashtrian Christians. (wikipedia.org)
  • Over the following centuries, countless groups battled for control of the spice trade. (silkroadspices.ca)
  • In the 15th century, the spice trade was transformed by the European Age of Discovery. (silkroadspices.ca)
  • The Portuguese were the first Europeans to expand over the seas since the Vikings . (travelzom.com)
  • By the time Columbus sailed into the Caribbean in the late 15th century, chilies were a long-established part of most diets across the Americas. (time.com)
  • In the late 10th century, Vikings crossed the north Atlantic from Scandinavia, sailing to Iceland, on to Greenland and then to North America - to the island that is now Newfoundland, and possibly to what today is Quebec province in Canada and the state of Maine in the US. (historyextra.com)
  • The name 'Caribbean' is named after the Caribs, one of the dominant Amerindian groups in the region at the time of European contact during the late 15th century. (solarnavigator.net)
  • He embarked on a series of voyages across the Atlantic Ocean in the late 15th century, sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain. (thetimelinegeek.com)
  • The arrival of Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer leading a fleet for Spain, marked the beginning of Spanish colonization. (agreatertown.com)
  • A flourishing Christian community in the 6th century was mentioned by Kosmos Indicopleustes and Jordanus, who worked among the Christians in Thana and Sopara areas in the 13th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Eventually, in the mid-13th century, Venice emerged as the primary trade port for spices bound for western and northern Europe. (silkroadspices.ca)
  • Marco Polo was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer who lived during the 13th century. (thetimelinegeek.com)
  • After reading Conquerors , it's hard to understand why the Spanish effort is celebrated while the Portuguese story is not. (portugalhoy.com)
  • Christianity was brought to the North Konkan region of Maharashtra by Bartholomew, one of the twelve apostles of Christ. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was because of the arrival of Portuguese and with them Jesuit missionaries who spread a new form of Christianity called Roman Catholicism in the area. (wikipedia.org)
  • Others, like cheeses made in America, have gained popularity in Europe and Asia. (top-list.co)
  • The weakening of ocean circulation, specifically the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), causes concern for North America and Europe into the future. (geogarage.com)
  • As AMOC slows, it can have dramatic consequences for the climate and weather of especially North America and Europe. (geogarage.com)
  • Without this conveyor belt of warm water to the north, northern North America and Europe will experience colder conditions. (geogarage.com)
  • They arrived in Europe from the Middle East in the 15th century, separating from the Dom people" and settled across Central and Eastern Europe, Spain, Portugal, and southern France. (ileanajohnson.com)
  • The period from the 5th to the 15th century AD is in Europe known as the Middle Ages , earlier implied to be a "dark" age between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance and Age of Discovery. (travelzom.com)
  • As far as the story of the two North American species of Sequoia is concerned the credit for their introduction to Britain mainly goes to the intrepid Victorians. (hatfield-herts.co.uk)
  • In this talk, Jordi Rivera Prince will tie social inequality through the past and the present addressing her own bioarchaeological research in the North Coast of the Central Andes, and her experience today in academia and a Mexican-American woman of color from a working-class background. (saa.org)
  • While Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and British galleons were smaller than the giant treasure junks, they were more seaworthy and maneuverable than comparable Chinese vessels and carried improved and modern cannon to boot. (americanthinker.com)
  • The team, which published its findings in Geophysical Research Letters , found a dramatic weakening of ocean circulation during the last century. (geogarage.com)
  • This cold and salty water sinks to the bottom of the North Atlantic and begins to flow southward again along the ocean bottom. (geogarage.com)
  • Portuguese explorer who was the first person to sail across the Pacific Ocean and to circumnavigate the globe. (salemwitchtrials.com)
  • A succeeding Ming Emperor,Yongle, sought to assert Chinese domination of critical sea lanes and establish direct trade links to the profitable markets of the Indian Ocean basin. (americanthinker.com)
  • Portuguese ships in a painting from circa 1540, a time when Portugal was the leading maritime power in the Indian Ocean. (portugalhoy.com)
  • Within a short period of time, the Portuguese had established themselves as the dominant maritime power in the Indian Ocean. (portugalhoy.com)
  • Although Muslim armies in Ottoman Turkey and Egypt were tough, and its navy in the eastern Mediterranean formidable, the Indian Ocean was a demilitarized neutral zone, in which free trade and tolerance held sway. (portugalhoy.com)
  • [38] Gujaratis played a big part in the Indian ocean trade. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is situated in the western Pacific Ocean and consists of around 7,641 islands that are broadly categorized under three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. (agreatertown.com)
  • Diogo Oliveira will also raise questions about the nature of Swahili culture in Northern Mozambique and its construction of a maritime cultural landscape centered around cross-oceanic connections in the vast Indian Ocean Trade Network. (saa.org)
  • Bermuda lies much further to the north in the Atlantic Ocean and is sometimes included in the West Indies. (solarnavigator.net)
  • East Indians, also known as Mobaikars, are an ethno-religious group native to the Seven Islands of Bombay and Mumbai metropolitan area in the northern Konkan Division. (wikipedia.org)
  • North America, being one of the continents in the Americas, fits this description and is therefore the correct answer. (proprofs.com)
  • By 1506, the Portuguese had established forts in key ports along the east African and Indian coasts, and their ships were returning to Lisbon brimming with spices, gold and other luxury goods. (portugalhoy.com)
  • It was improved considerably by Indian chefs, but a key ingredient, chile peppers, was actually brought over by the Portuguese from America, meaning your curry made a full circle back to your plate. (cracked.com)
  • Once we develop a taste for hot food, which provides a high, there is no going back," says renowned Indian cook Madhur Jaffrey. (time.com)
  • [28] Diasporas and transnational networks in many of these countries date back to more than a century. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Roman Empire set up a powerful trading centre in Alexandria, Egypt in the first century BC and was in command of all of the spices entering the Greco-Roman world for many years. (silkroadspices.ca)
  • This success marked the beginning of the Portuguese Empire. (silkroadspices.ca)
  • Trade routes had been maintained between the Roman Empire and the East via the Silk Road for many centuries. (travelzom.com)
  • The Portuguese, within a matter of years, had created the first Western--dominated world empire since Alexander the Great. (portugalhoy.com)
  • Portugal became, in the 15th century, due in substantial part to its Muslim and Jewish heritages, expert in cartography and navigation and that, along with other factors, enabled the country to launch itself in the Age of Discoveries. (aph.pt)
  • The Muslim influence can still today be observed in the Portuguese culture, namely in the number of words that made their way through the Latin matrix of the language. (aph.pt)
  • That was what happened when the Portuguese conquistador Afonso de Albuquerque tried to capture the strategic, Muslim-held port city of Aden in 1513. (justworldnews.org)
  • It was definitely popularized in America in the '50s, where it was initially known as German's Chocolate Cake, but you know how Americans feel about unnecessary punctuation, so that apostrophe soon got dropped and a lesson was (not really) learned about naming people after places. (cracked.com)
  • The Portuguese could have joined this network with minimum fuss, and were initially welcomed to join in commerce, if they had anything worth selling. (portugalhoy.com)
  • As befits a rising power, China's leadership was increasingly curious about the lands that lay beyond the horizon, with whom the Middle Kingdom had traded along the silk roads and sea lanes for centuries. (americanthinker.com)
  • For a century, China's retrenchment seemed to have little consequence. (americanthinker.com)
  • But according to surviving documents in China's imperial archives, Zheng He is said to have paid a visit to the Sultan of Malindi - the most powerful coastal ruler of the time, in present-day eastern Kenya (this encounter probably took place at Mambrui, a small village just north of Malindi on Kenya's north coast, since it mentioned that the town was by a river mouth). (newafricanmagazine.com)
  • When people started getting rich, more and more companies formed and soon there were hundreds of American ships making around-the-world voyages for spices. (silkroadspices.ca)
  • We place these thinkers in the context of building a Latin-American "awareness" and within the scope of active resistance from the people in Abya Yala. (intechopen.com)
  • These fundamental principles are joined to the science of building Brunelleschi's Dome of Florence and the science of astronomy that Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, the greatest astronomer and mathematician of that entire century, represented-a very close circle of people. (larouchepub.com)
  • Since the Native Americans and First Nations once had their own governments and tribal alliances but are now a part of contemporary nations like the United States, Canada, and Mexico, some people consider them to have historically been sovereign states. (international-thinking.com)
  • Early European travelers like Ludovico di Varthema (15th century) traveled to Gujarat and wrote on the people of Gujarat. (wikipedia.org)
  • This chapter introduces the pedagogical thinking of an array of Latin-American and indigenous educators who dreamt of Latin America featuring more freedom and democracy. (intechopen.com)
  • Discovery' in this context is a Eurocentric term, too, since indigenous Americans already lived there and knew the place. (intoday.in)
  • Spanish explorer who, with the backing of Ferdinand V and Isabella I, discovered the North American continent on October 12,1492 . (salemwitchtrials.com)
  • It's what the Spanish, Portuguese, and English did in the American mainland. (justworldnews.org)
  • In 1896, the Philippine Revolution began, which then became entwined with the 1898 Spanish-American War. (agreatertown.com)
  • So it's batata in Portuguese, patata in Spanish and Italian (not that the Italians conquered anything in the Americas, but Columbus was born in what is now Italy), and, of course, potato in English. (intoday.in)
  • We prioritized a generation of educators who achieved their degrees in the first half of the twentieth century and who had shared with society their intellectual production by 1990, a time preceded by a decade of social conflict and democratic liberalization. (intechopen.com)
  • This lecture will present preliminary results from recent excavations on the northern coast of Mozambique, as well as interpretations from known archaeological sites, to better assess the nature of Swahili society on the northern Mozambican coast at the time of Portuguese first contact. (saa.org)
  • The Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias would become the first European to sight and sail around the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. (travelzom.com)
  • Portuguese navigator and explorer who explored what is now Brazil. (salemwitchtrials.com)
  • Prior to the introduction of cookery networks, which made previously unheard-of cuisine available 24 hours a day, the meal, which is particularly American, was mostly unknown outside of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal regions. (top-list.co)
  • It was widely grown and consumed on both sides of the Atlantic by the middle of the century. (top-list.co)
  • A Heinrich event is the sudden and large-scale breakup and subsequent melting of glaciers over the North Atlantic. (geogarage.com)
  • Scientists believe we could be in a similar scenario today, where the breakup and melting of icebergs and glaciers in the North Atlantic and Greenland could cause a large freshwater input into the North Atlantic. (geogarage.com)
  • The key engine for the continued flow of AMOC is the sinking of cold and salty water in the North Atlantic. (geogarage.com)
  • This thermohaline circulation is what scientists fear is slowing down due to the fresh water cap from melting icebergs in the North Atlantic. (geogarage.com)
  • Oceanic circulation in the North Atlantic transports huge amounts of water, heat, salt, carbon, and nutrients around the globe. (geogarage.com)
  • Recent studies suggested a twentieth‐century weakening of the AMOC of unprecedented amplitude (~15%) over the last millennium. (geogarage.com)
  • The works selected were from scholars who were born and had their intellectual upbringing, in the first half of the twentieth century. (intechopen.com)
  • Along the journey north, water near the surface absorbs greenhouse gases, which sink down as the water cools near Greenland. (geogarage.com)
  • Americans made new contributions to the spice world, notably the creation of chili powder by Texas settlers as an easier way to make Mexican dishes and the development of techniques for dehydrating onions and garlic. (silkroadspices.ca)
  • He had contributed to the Schiller Institute symposium on the 500th anniversary of the rediscovery of America, and of the advances in technology that made it possible. (larouchepub.com)
  • Yet it was events five centuries earlier that made the changes of 1500 possible - events that are too often neglected in Eurocentric narratives. (historyextra.com)
  • He aimed to establish Portuguese influence in the region and secure favourable trade agreements. (thetimelinegeek.com)
  • The peoples of different regions were much more balanced in their technology and wealth, so in that sense it was much more like our world today than the world of five centuries later. (historyextra.com)
  • The ensuing Philippine-American War ended with the United States establishing control over the territory, which they maintained until the Japanese invasion of the islands during World War II. (agreatertown.com)
  • When the Portuguese reached Mozambique Island at the end of the 15th century, they encountered a populated coast of diverse communities integrated within a wider Swahili world. (saa.org)
  • The continent that would be considered the New World is North America. (proprofs.com)
  • The French Dominican friar Jordanus Catalani of Severac (in south-western France) started evangelizing activities in Thana and Sopara and was the first work of Rome in North Konkan. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some of the main diseases were leprosy, mange, scabies, ringworm, and syphilis, which were widespread in Rome during the 18th and 19th centuries and were creating a mortal threat for much of the population. (bvsalud.org)
  • The diseases brought to the American continent that helped to nearly destroy the native populations is one example of that exchange. (salemwitchtrials.com)
  • The Kingdom of Portugal emerged in the 12th century, during the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula (the conquest of the southern territories, occupied by the Moors). (aph.pt)
  • At the start of the 15th-century Ming Dynasty, China was the largest, most powerful, and most technologically advanced nation on earth. (americanthinker.com)
  • Sporadic settlements of Ghata Voylem Kristanv (Konkani for "Christians from above the Ghats") are found in the uplands of Kolhapur, Belgaum, North Canara & Dharwad districts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wars over the Indonesian Spice Islands broke out between expanding European nations and continued for about 200 years, between the 15th and 17th centuries. (silkroadspices.ca)
  • In October 1792, the United States of America was still a new country, not even a decade old, fresh from a complete government overhaul just four years earlier. (si.edu)