Discovery of the Americas, 1492-1800

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Darién 45, 46
Darwin, Charles 172
Dávila, Pedrarias 92, 93
Daytona Beach, Florida 47
Daza, Luis da 76
dead reckoning 18–19, 184 g
declination 18, 184 g
deer 56
De Orbe Novo(Peter Martyr) 9
Description of the World(Marco
Polo) 12
de Soto, Hernando. SeeSoto, Her-
nando de
despoblado 184 g
Dias, Bartholomeu 13
Díaz, Melchior 109, 112, 113,
113 m
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal 49, 50,
52–54, 58
diphtheria 35
discoveryxvii
Discovery(ship) 160, 161, 164,
165
diseases xiv,6,32, 35,49, 59,60,
61,152, 164
dogs 93, 117, 176, 178
Dominguez, Francisco Atanasio
154–156, 155
Dominican Republic 4, 29, 31
Doña Marina 55. See alsoMal-
inche
Dorantes de Carranza, Andrés 84,
85, 89
Dor-Ner, Zvi xiv
Drake, Sir Francis 122m,124–128,
125, 127, 160
Drake Passage 125
Drake’s Bay 127, 128
dyewood (red) 40

E
Earth 8, 18–19, 22,25, 35, 171
Ecuador 67, 68,72, 174, 175
El Dorado 75, 76, 79,80, 80
Elizabeth I (queen of England)
124, 125, 127
El Morro 135, 136, 138–139
El Paso 86
El Turco 116, 117
Enciso, Martín de 44
encomienda34, 184 g

England 40,124–128

English language 175

engraved plates 23

the Enlightenment 171–173

entrada53, 106, 116, 117, 119,

184 g

epidemics 35

equator 18,25, 171

Escalante, Silvestre Velez de

154–156, 155

Escalante Desert 155

Escalona, Juan de 136

Espejo, Antonio de 133

Espíritu Santu 94

Estéban 84,85, 86, 89, 107, 108

estuary 184g

Europe and Europeans xiii, xiv,

8–13, 12m,19, 23,25, 179, 180.

See also specific headings, e.g.:

Spain and Spanish

exploration 10, 22, 23, 23,132,

134. See also specific headings,
     e.g.:Soto, Hernando de

F

Falkland Islands 43

Farallon Islands 149

Al-Farghani 25

farming 6, 57, 97 .See alsocrops

Federman, Nikolaus 72

Ferdinand II of Aragon (king of

Spain) xv, 14, 26, 46

and Christopher Columbus 1,

4, 4, 5,8, 26, 33, 37

letter to Christopher Colum-

bus from 1

marriage to Isabella 14

requerimiento 94

and Juan Díaz de Solís 49

and Amerigo Vespucci 43

Ferdinand VII (king of Spain)

148

Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés,

Gonzalo 45, 72, 74, 93, 104, 105,

119

Ferrer, Bartolomé 121, 129, 149

firearms 56

fish 95

fishing 6

Fletcher, Francis 127

Flints, Mountain of the 62

Florida 48,52, 82, 83,105, 173.

See also“La Florida”; St. Augus-

tine, Florida

Florida Keys 48

forced labor 32, 34

Fort St. Louis. SeeSt. Louis, Fort

“fountain of youth” 47, 48

Four Corners region 154–156

France 139, 173, 174, 181m

Franciscan missionaries 79,105,

144, 145, 149, 184g

explorations of 132–133

Francisco Tomás Garcés 112,

153–154, 156

goals of 152

Francisco López 132

Agustín Rodríquez 132

fray 184g

French Academy of Sciences 170,

171

French language 175

Freyle, Juan Rodríquez 76

Fuca, Juan de 163

Fumos, Bahía de los.SeeBay of

Smokes

fur traders 157

G

Galápagos Islands 172

Galaup , Jean-François de. SeeLa

Pérouse, comte de

Galiano, Dionisio Alcalá 165, 166

galleon 124, 124,128, 129,

184 g– 185 g

Gálvez, José de 149

Gamarra, Francisco López de 144

game 117

Garay, Francisco de 48

Garcés, Francisco Tomás 112,

153–154, 156

Garden of Eden 35

Genoa, Italy xiv, 15

genocide xiv

Gentleman of Elvas 99, 105

geography and geographers. See

alsocharts and chartmaking;

mapmaking; navigation

beliefs in 22–25

in Columbus’s time 24–25

and continents 19

Henry the Navigator 12

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