The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1898 - 367 pages |
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... nearly thirty years there , an of travels of great value . In that r India and China , and spoke of the whose existence he then first mad gave the best account of the count . been published since Alexander the ( 327 B.C. ) , and he ...
... nearly thirty years there , an of travels of great value . In that r India and China , and spoke of the whose existence he then first mad gave the best account of the count . been published since Alexander the ( 327 B.C. ) , and he ...
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... nearly all - water line of communication with the East , though there were points where the navigation was both difficult and dan- gerous . Trade over these two competing routes had gone on for centuries ; but in 1453 , when Columbus ...
... nearly all - water line of communication with the East , though there were points where the navigation was both difficult and dan- gerous . Trade over these two competing routes had gone on for centuries ; but in 1453 , when Columbus ...
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... Nearly three hundred years later , Edmund Burke , the eminent British statesman , said in Parliament : " We derive our right in America from the discovery of [ John ] Cabot , who first made the northern continent in 1497. " Thus the ...
... Nearly three hundred years later , Edmund Burke , the eminent British statesman , said in Parliament : " We derive our right in America from the discovery of [ John ] Cabot , who first made the northern continent in 1497. " Thus the ...
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... nearly Valtʼza - miller . 4 St. Dié ( San De - ay ' ) . 5 Vespucci's voyages : according to what purports to be his own account , Amerigo Vespucci made his first voyage in the spring of 1497 , and saw on June 6th THE DISCOVERY AND ...
... nearly Valtʼza - miller . 4 St. Dié ( San De - ay ' ) . 5 Vespucci's voyages : according to what purports to be his own account , Amerigo Vespucci made his first voyage in the spring of 1497 , and saw on June 6th THE DISCOVERY AND ...
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... nearly two years of wandering , reached a Spanish settlement on the western coast of Mexico.5 They were the first white men that had ever crossed so large a portion of the continent . They had only journeyed from the 1 This was the ...
... nearly two years of wandering , reached a Spanish settlement on the western coast of Mexico.5 They were the first white men that had ever crossed so large a portion of the continent . They had only journeyed from the 1 This was the ...
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