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A map showing enclaves of the Mon people in Thailand around the 6th-7th centuries. As is generally known, the present-day Thai people were previously called Siamese before the country was renamed Thailand in the mid-20th century. [40] The Thais, or Siamese, are descendants of the Tai peoples who migrated south from China over a thousand years ago.
The captain general's superior was the viceroy of New Spain in Mexico City, who, in turn, was appointed by the king of Spain. [citation needed] The governors of Formosa were: Antonio Carreño Valdés, 1626–1629; Juan de Alcarazo, 1629–1632; Bartolomé Díaz Barrera, 1632–1634; Alonso García Romero, 1634–1635; Francisco Hernández, 1635 ...
The expedition established the remainder of the boundaries of the Gulf of Mexico while disproving the idea of a sea passage to Asia. It also verified that Florida was a peninsula instead of an island. Álvarez de Pineda became the first European to see the coastal areas of what is now western Florida, Alabama , Mississippi , Louisiana , and ...
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...
Map of Asia and Oceania c.1550. The Portuguese presence in Asia was responsible for what would be the first of many contacts between European countries and the East, starting on May 20, 1498 with the trip led by Vasco da Gama to Calicut, India [1] (in modern-day Kerala state in India).
The native culture of Austronesia varies from region to region. The early Austronesian peoples considered the sea as the basic feature of their life. [citation needed] Following their diaspora to Southeast Asia and Oceania, they migrated by boat to other islands. Boats of different sizes and shapes have been found in every Austronesian culture ...
By 1498 Vasco da Gama, who had sailed round the Cape of Good Hope, established the first direct sea route from Europe to India. [7] Central among the various plannings was to establish direct and permanent trade of the highly priced spices native to Southeast Asia, included pepper, cloves, nutmeg, mace and cinnamon. Competition among the ...