This article explores some of the biggest and most influential empires in the world, from the British Empire to the Mongol ...

When the Spanish conquered the Maya empire in the 16th century, they forced their new subjects to convert to Christianity and speak and write in Spanish. But long before the Maya used the Roman ...

Gutiérrez Trápaga, Daniel 2022. Menciones a libros y relaciones cíclicas en las continuaciones amadisianas de Feliciano de Silva. JANUS. Estudios sobre el Siglo de Oro, p. 481. Runner-up for the 2015 ...

Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer credited for connecting ... where he gained support from the Spanish monarchy. He persuaded King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I to ...

Aztec society, whose powerful empire stretched ... Bernardino de Sahagún, a Spanish friar living near what is now Mexico City. During the second part of the 16th century, Sahagún compiled ...

This probing story of archeological discovery begins in a cemetery crammed with skeletons that offer tantalizing clues about a fierce 16th-century ... Inca Empire and Spanish invaders.