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Juan de la Cosa's map is a manuscript nautical chart of the world drawn on two joined sheets of parchment sewn onto a canvas backing. It measures 96 cm high by 183 cm wide. A legend written in Spanish at the western edge of the map translates as "Juan de la Cosa made this (map) in the port of Santa Maria in the year 1500".
The Clásico El Ensayo was first run at a distance of 1200 meters, and has been contested at a variety of distances: [5] [6] 1200 meters: 1873-1880; 1500 meters: 1881-1883; 1600 meters: 1884-1892; 1800 meters: 1893-1904, 1908; 1900 meters: 1905-1907, 1909; 2000 meters: 1910-1920; 2300 meters: 1921-1925; 2400 meters: 1926 to present
Before hand, cartographic works had been developed through less rational methods than mathematical, such as theology and cosmology, but did include statements of geography and history as well. The beginning of the 14th century also introduced the first atlas, which was created through a series of maps being bound together. The new innovation ...
They usually extend from 700 to 800 metres to 1500 to 1600 m elevation. They prefer siliceous soil and, as elevation increases, they replace the damp oak forests and cork oak ; on the high ground they give way to Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris ) forests or to los piornales serranos with creeping juniper.
A typical caravel was fifty plus tons, twenty to thirty meters in length and six to eight meters in breadth, the lateen sails were rigged on two-thirds tall masts and occasionally no bowsprit. These adjustments made it possible to increase the speed and the crew, but at the expense of cargo space and war capabilities. [24]
1500 – Printing press in operation. [2] 1505 – San Jerónimo el Real built. 1526 – Treaty of Madrid signed. 1537 – Casa de Cisneros built. 1547 – Birth of Miguel de Cervantes, later a Spanish writer. [1] 1559 – Convent of Las Descalzas Reales founded. 1561 Court of Philip II moves from Toledo to Madrid. [3] Population: 20,000 ...
Estimates of the pre-Columbian population of the Americas vary but possibly stood at 100 million—one fifth of humanity in 1492. Between 1500 and 1600 the population of the Americas was halved. In Mexico alone, it has been estimated that the pre-conquest population of around 25 million was reduced within 80 years to about 1.3 million.
Juan Pardo was a Spanish explorer who was active in the latter half of the 16th century. He led a Spanish expedition from the Atlantic coast through what is now North and South Carolina and into eastern Tennessee [1] on the orders of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, in an attempt to find an inland route to a silver-producing town in Mexico.