1.) Explain the significance of the phrase "God, Glory, and Gold" to the exploration and settlement of the Americas. There were three main things that were important to the explorers and settlers of the Americas. "God, Glory, and Gold" was a phrase commonly used among the pe...

Cabeza de VacaCabeza de Vaca was born in 1490 as a noble. He was a Spanish explorer in the Americas. Cabeza was part of an expedition that included 5 overloaded ships. They were separated in a storm while sailing to the Americas. Cabeza and his ship sailed to Texas coast and then rejoined by s...

Columbia was one of the three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Columbia in 1830. A fourty year insurgent campaign to overthrow the Columbian government escalated during the 1990s, under girded in part by funds from the drug trade. Although the violence is deadly and large swaths of t...