The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1898 - 367 pages |
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... later spent one or more winters , cannot be exactly determined . According to their account they found wild grapes growing in such abundance that they named the region Vinland . This may have been , as many have supposed , a part of ...
... later spent one or more winters , cannot be exactly determined . According to their account they found wild grapes growing in such abundance that they named the region Vinland . This may have been , as many have supposed , a part of ...
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... later he came to the conclusion that it was part of the Asiatic mainland , and he compelled his men to swear that they believed that , if they chose , they could go thence , all the way by land , back to Spain . It should be distinctly ...
... later he came to the conclusion that it was part of the Asiatic mainland , and he compelled his men to swear that they believed that , if they chose , they could go thence , all the way by land , back to Spain . It should be distinctly ...
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... Later , the line was fixed at three hundred and seventy leagues west of the Cape Verd Islands.1 Portugal was to have all lands , not belonging to some Chris- tian prince , found east of this line ; Spain all similar lands west of it ...
... Later , the line was fixed at three hundred and seventy leagues west of the Cape Verd Islands.1 Portugal was to have all lands , not belonging to some Chris- tian prince , found east of this line ; Spain all similar lands west of it ...
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... Later , Vespucci visited Brazil . All recent authorities on American history — namely , Winsor ( " Narrative and Critical History of America " ) , Bancroft ( revised edition , 1883 ) , and Bryant — believe that Vespucci did not make his ...
... Later , Vespucci visited Brazil . All recent authorities on American history — namely , Winsor ( " Narrative and Critical History of America " ) , Bancroft ( revised edition , 1883 ) , and Bryant — believe that Vespucci did not make his ...
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... Later called North America Hispaniola Equator Map of 1515 from Schöner's Globe ) Showingthe name America first applied to South America ) and what was then known of the Java Northern continent ( North Americal America Map of 1515 ...
... Later called North America Hispaniola Equator Map of 1515 from Schöner's Globe ) Showingthe name America first applied to South America ) and what was then known of the Java Northern continent ( North Americal America Map of 1515 ...
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