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Boldly Onward(414 clicks)
America's Adelantados - by Lindsey Williams

Caribbean Discovery & Encounter(1386 clicks)
Think Sheet on Caribbean Discovery and Encounter with documents provided.

Christopher Columbus, Journal (1492)(1139 clicks)
August-November

Christopher Columbus, letter to the King and Queen of Spain(875 clicks)
probably 1494

Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal(1555 clicks)
From the journal of Columbus in his voyage of 1492.

Columbus May Have Brought Syphilis To Europe From New World(1183 clicks)
Science News

COLUMBUS' LANDFALL(1655 clicks)

Columbus' Ships(1195 clicks)
Short description of the ships.

Defining the Coastlines(632 clicks)
Defining the Coastlines: Eyewitness Testimony and the Mapping of Spain's First American Possessions, 1492-1536 William D. Phillips, Jr. University of Minnesota

Discoverers Web(1230 clicks)
All kinds of information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration.

Ferdinand Magellan(1606 clicks)
Biography with map.

Ferdinand Magellan(1593 clicks)

Las Casas on the Five Kings of Hispaniola(1559 clicks)
"Bartolome de Las Casas, in writing his Aplogética Historia, wrote about the political divisions of the inhabitants of the island of Hispaniola (the seat of Spanish authority in the Caribbean) ."

Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King & Queen of Spain(1393 clicks)
The great explorer asks for bebefits

Magellan: Missing in Action (122 clicks)
by Laurence Bergreen Author of Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

Native Women Preparing Manioc for a Feast(1308 clicks)
Engraving by Theodor de Bry, 1590.

Pedro Álvares Cabral(1556 clicks)
Short biography in Portuguese.

Pedro Alvarez Cabral(1227 clicks)
From the Catholic Encyclopedia

Peter van der Krogt's postcards of Columbus Monuments(487 clicks)
postcard collection

Privileges and Prerogatives Granted .. Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus(1098 clicks)
Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus : 1492

Spanish Exploration and Conquest of Native America(632 clicks)

The European Voyages of Exploration: the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries(1089 clicks)
from the University of Calgary. "During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries two nations, Portugal and Spain, pioneered the European discovery of sea routes that were the first channels of interaction between all of the world's continents, thus beginning the process of globalisation in which we all live today. This tutorial introduces the student to these two pioneering nations, their motivations, their actions, and the inevitable consequences of their colonisation. This tutorial also examines the geographical, technological, economic, political, and cultural patterns of that era."

The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca (1542)(1145 clicks)
From PBS

The Relación de Fray Ramón Pané(1493 clicks)
"the earliest surviving account of the history, customs, and religious beliefs of any native American culture. His Relación of the Taino describes the inhabitants of the island known today as Puerto Rico."