The Norse explorationof North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas ofthe North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating...
Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery. Organised exploration is largely a human activity, but exploratory...
TheAmericas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. TheAmericas make up most of the...
and laid the groundwork for globalization. The extensive overseas exploration, particularly the European colonization oftheAmericas, with the Spanish...
began colonizing theAmericas in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere...
The naming oftheAmericas, or America, occurred shortly after Christopher Columbus's first voyage to theAmericas in 1492. It is generally accepted that...
colonization oftheAmericas (Portuguese: Colonização portuguesa da América) constituted territories in theAmericas belonging to the Kingdom of Portugal...
represent the most complete information available regarding the Norse explorationoftheAmericas, although due to Iceland's oral tradition, they cannot be...
people from theAmericas may have reached Polynesia. Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition successfully demonstrated that the trip from theAmericas to Polynesia...
personifications ofAmerica, meaning theAmericas, typically come from sets ofthe four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. These were all that...
The Indigenous peoples oftheAmericas are groups of people native to a specific region that inhabited theAmericas before the arrival of European settlers...
The physical explorationofthe Moon began when Luna 2, a space probe launched by the Soviet Union, made a deliberate impact on the surface ofthe Moon...
explore along the West African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean and by Columbus on his expeditions ofexplorationoftheAmericas. The lateen sails gave...
European explorationof Africa was followed by the Spanish explorationoftheAmericas, further exploration along the coasts of Africa, and explorationsof West...
Caribbean in 1492, sparking a period of European explorationoftheAmericas. But despite four voyages to theAmericas, Columbus never believed he had reached...
Geographical exploration, sometimes considered the default meaning for the more general term exploration, refers to the practice of discovering remote...
During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization oftheAmericas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late...
national petroleum exploration and production company based in Thailand. It is a subsidiary ofthe state-owned PTT Public Company Limited. The company was founded...
The era of European and American voyages of scientific exploration followed the Age of Discovery and were inspired by a new confidence in science and reason...
The peopling oftheAmericas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the...
theAmericas. Three ofthe ships headed directly for Hispaniola with much-needed supplies, while Columbus took the other three in an explorationof what...
members ofthe group in St. Charles, Missouri, then went up the Missouri River. The expedition crossed the Continental Divide oftheAmericas near the Lemhi...
The history oftheAmericas begins with people migrating to these areas from Asia during the height of an ice age. These groups are generally believed...
species of fish, 2,311 of these new to science. It remains one ofthe most ambitious treatises ofthe modern world. Scientific explorationoftheAmericas advanced...