Related topics from BritannicaEdwards, Jorge
On April 24, 2000, King Juan Carlos of Spain presented the Cervantes Prize, the highest honour in Spanish-language literature, to Chilean writer Jorge Edwards. In his acceptance speech Edwards, the ...
Chile
Because only quite limited amounts of precious metal were found in Chile, the settlers early turned their attention to agriculture. They grew a wide variety of cereals, vegetables, and fruits; raised ...
Bransfield, Edward
English naval officer believed to have been the first to sight the Antarctic mainland and to chart a portion of it.intendente
royal official appointed by the 18th-century kings of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain. Modeled after the French intendants, the intendentes were to serve as instruments of royal centralization and ...
Almagro, Diego de
Spanish soldier who played a leading role in the Spanish conquest of Peru.captain general
in colonial Spanish America, the governor of a captaincy general, a division of a viceroyalty. Captaincies general were established districts that were under serious pressures from foreign invasion ...
Andean peoples
Even these two technological developments, however, are not enough to characterize and explain the emergence of Andean civilizations. From the intimate knowledge of their environmental conditions, ...
Religion
(For figures on Adherents of All Religions by Continent, see Table I; for Adherents in the U.S., see Table II.)museums, history of
Before the end of the 18th century the phenomenon of the museum had spread to other parts of the world. In 1773 in the United States the Charleston Library Society of South Carolina announced its ...
Andean peoples
aboriginal inhabitants of the area of the Central Andes in South America. |
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