State of ambiguity : civic life and culture in Cuba's first republic Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and index. Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Christopher Columbus, on his first Spanish-sponsored voyage to the Americas in 1492, sailed south from what is now the Bahamas to explore the northeast coast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola.

The first record of slavery in Cuba. Landowner Amador de Lares gets permission to bring four African slaves from Hispaniola. March - April. Juan Ponce de León discovers and sails along the South and Southeastern side of Florida (which he considers to be an island). April 2.

1491年，印加人统治着世界上最庞大的帝国。 它大过中国的明王朝，大过在伊凡大帝治下大肆扩张的俄罗斯帝国，大过萨赫勒地区的桑海帝国和西非高原上强盛的大津巴布韦帝国，大过如日中天的奥斯曼帝国，大过三国同盟（这是阿兹特克帝国更为精确的名称 ...

2023年12月23日 · An edition of De los bosques a los cañaverales: una historia ambiental de Cuba 1491-1926 (2008)

In 1492, with three ships and ninety men, Columbus followed the trade winds southwest from Spain past the Canary Islands and out into the Atlantic. To his surprise, he reached then-unknown islands, the Bahamas and West Indies, located in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus stubbornly insisted that the islands were the East Indies near the mainland of Asia.

De los bosques a los cañaverales : una historia ambiental de Cuba 1491-1926 / Reinaldo Funes Monzote. Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object Details Author Funes Monzote, Reinaldo 1969-Fernández Soriano, Armando Piqueras, José A. 1963-Introduction by Armando Fernández Soriano ; preface by José A. Piqueras. 2008

Colonial Rule: The history of Cuba began with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the subsequent invasion of the island by the Spaniards. Aboriginal groups—the Guanahatabey, Ciboney, and Taíno—inhabited the island but were soon eliminated or died as a result of diseases or the shock of conquest.

2025年3月28日 · Second (first Strasbourg) Latin edition, very rare, of the most extensive 15th-century work on natural history and medicine, first published by Meydenbach in Mainz in 1491, and compiled by the German doctor and herbalist Johannes de Cuba or Johannes von Kaub (fl. 1484-1503). It was the prototype for all subsequent editions.

2018年10月12日 · The rich historiography of colonial Peru, Mexico, and other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean contrast with the paucity of monographs about pre-eighteenth-century Cuba. This book aims to remedy that dearth by employing what geographers might recognize as chorology, the long-shunned intellectual stepchild of geography because of its ...