Welcome to 1492: AN ONGOING VOYAGE an Exhibit of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC 1492. Columbus. The date and the name provoke many questions related to the linking of very different parts of the world, the Western Hemisphere and the Mediterranean. What was life like in those areas before 1492? What spurred European expansion? How did European, African and American peoples react to each other? What were some of the immediate results of these contacts? 1492: AN ONGOING VOYAGE addre ...

SPAIN Open Air Museum of Europe Spain has always been a country of frontiers, and this is the source of her true wealth. For this reason Spain is a country with a great heritage to maintain; the remains of its many different identities throughout its rich history. This historically rich heritage and its current national identity creates the echoes of countless conquests in the voices of its ethnically and geographically div ...

Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Free Travel Cheap Tickets Auction Newsletter Immigration Affiliate Make Money Spain HISTORY The Iberian Peninsula has been occupied for many millennia. Some of Europe's most impressive Paleolithic cultural sites are located there-the famous caves at Altamira contain spectacular paintings which date from about 15,000-25,000 years ago. The Basques are the first identifiable people of ...

Some Important Dates in Medieval Spanish History Return to Main Menu 5th Century, CE Spain ceases to be a part of the Roman Empire (which splits in two with its better, richer half moving its capital east to Constantinople) and experiences a series of invasions by the Vandals, Suevi, and Alani, and then is dominated by Visigothic rule. It must be noted that the Visigoths never achieved cultural dominion over the region. To a large extent they adopted that of the Hispano-Romans, co ...

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