Kerala and the Indian Ocean. During the Age of Discovery, Spain sponsored and financed the transatlantic voyages of the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus...

South America. These voyages led to the widespread knowledge of the New World. This breakthrough inaugurated the period known as the Age of Discovery, which...

overall. He is also known for participating in the early English slaving voyages of his cousin, Sir John Hawkins, and John Lovell. Having started as a simple...

association of Chinese travel agencies in France (Association Chinoise des Agences de Voyages en France), said "Chinese people romanticize France, they know about...

(1,243 mi) on his Train Eclair de luxe ("lightning luxury train").[failed verification] The train left Paris Gare de l'Est on Tuesday, 10 October 1882...

treasure voyages or the Iberian naval ventures all the way along the African Atlantic coast and across the Atlantic Ocean, starting the Age of Discovery...

derived. Between 1497 and 1504, Vespucci participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery, first on behalf of Spain (1499–1500) and then for Portugal...

Golden Age can be placed in 1492, with the end of the Reconquista, the voyages of Christoforo Colombo to the New World, and the publication of Antonio de Nebrija's...

Jones and Margaret M. Condon, Cabot and Bristol's Age of Discovery: The Bristol Discovery Voyages 1480–1508 (University of Bristol, Nov. 2016), pp. 23–27...

Publivox Inc., and owner of Agence de Voyages Yvon Dupuis Inc. from 1981 to 2003. He died on January 1, 2017, at the age of 90. Politics of Quebec List...

jeune homme voyageur. C'est à partir donc de cette période qu'il faudra retrouver certains traits des voyages fictionnels, que j'appelle matrices , qui...

Peninsula. The sum of the distances covered in the outward and return voyages made this expedition the longest ocean voyage ever made until then. After...

collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey...

navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the...

"History of Juan Ponce de Leon's Voyages to Florida". Florida Historical Quarterly. 14 (1). Devereux, Anthony Q. (1993). Juan Ponce de Leon, King Ferdinand...

One inspiration for these voyages was Spanish soldier Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa who arrived in Peru in 1557. Sarmiento de Gamboa developed an interest...

Space: Voyages in the Solar System and Beyond. New York: Random House, 1990. Burrows, William E. This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age. New York:...

Star Trek: New Voyages, known from 2008 until 2015 as Star Trek: Phase II, is a fan-created science fiction webseries set in the fictional Star Trek universe...

latitude that Juan de Fuca described as the location of the Strait of Anián. According to de Fuca's account, he undertook two voyages of exploration on...

western Pacific. The Pirate Round (1690s), associated with long-distance voyages from the Americas to rob Muslim and East India Company targets in the Indian...

Spanish explorer and conquistador. In one of the most improbably successful voyages in known history, Orellana managed to sail the length of the Amazon, arriving...

had already reached the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia on previous voyages traveling east (from 1505 to 1511–1512). By visiting this area again but...

Voyages and Travels Contents of Grands Voyages, by Theodore de Bry. German and Latin Editions. De Bry's Grand Voyages Archived 11 April 2009 at the Wayback...

cargo ships of the Mediterranean were too slow and heavy to undertake such voyages. Under Henry's direction, a new and much lighter ship was developed, the...

voyages to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668. In 1675, Tavernier, at the behest of his patron Louis XIV, published Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste...

his Voyages and published another map of New France. In 1614, he formed the "Compagnie des Marchands de Rouen et de Saint-Malo" and "Compagnie de Champlain"...

cartographic enterprise at the Casa de Contratación was a huge undertaking, and critical to the success of the voyages of discovery. Without good navigational...

2018. Retrieved 17 December 2015. "Bousculade Mina: le Comité de crise des agences de voyages à la Mecque envisage des tests ADN" [Mina stampede: the Crisis...

needed] Atlantic Revolutions Early modern philosophy European and American voyages of scientific exploration Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment Midlands Enlightenment...

American voyages of scientific exploration followed the Age of Discovery and were inspired by a new confidence in science and reason that arose in the Age of...