"He was commissioned by the viceroy, Luis de Velasco, in 1564, to lead an expedition in the Pacific Ocean, to find the Spice Islands where the previous explorers Ferdinand Magellan and Ruy López de Villalobos had landed in 1521 and 1543, respectively. The expedition was ordered by king Philip II of Spain, after whom the islands were named. The viceroy died in July of that year, but the Audiencia and López de Legazpi completed the preparations for the expedition. On November 21, 1564, five ships and 500 soldiers, sailed from the port of Barra de Navidad, New Spain, in what is now Jalisco state, Mexico." - Thomas Page

In '1493,' Columbus Shaped A World To Be http://www.npr.org/2011... http://www.amazon.com/1493-Un... > Eight decades after Columbus, a Spaniard named Legazpi succeeded where Columbus had failed. He sailed west to establish continual trade with China, then the richest, most powerful country in the world. In Manila, a city Legazpi founded, silver from the Americas, mined by African and Indian slaves, was sold to Asians in return for silk for Europeans. It was the first time that goods and people from every corner of the globe were connected in a single worldwide exchange. Much as Columbus created a new world biologically, Legazpi and the Spanish empire he served created a new world economically. , 4 -26 http://longnow.org/seminar... - Thomas Page

Counting the hours till I get 1493 on Kindle... - Lopo

Guns Germs and Steel and 1491 = world view changing - Thomas Page

Trying to remember story line in Cryptonomicon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... The action takes place in two periods: the Second World War and the late 1990s, during the Internet boom. In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, a young U.S. Navy code breaker and mathematical genius is assigned to the newly formed joint English and American Detachment 2701. This is quickly changed to 2702 after Waterhouse points out the original designation is the product of two primes, 37 and 73. This ultra-secret unit's role is to hide the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the German Enigma code. The detachment stages events, often behind enemy lines, that provide alternative explanations for the Allied intelligence successes. Marine sergeant Bobby Shaftoe, a veteran of China and Guadalcanal, serves in unit 2702, carrying out Waterhouse's plans. At the same time, Japanese soldiers including mining engineer Goto Dengo, an old friend of Shaftoe's, are assigned to build a mysterious bunker in the mountains in the Philippines as part of what turns out to be a literal suicide mission. Circa 1997, Randy Waterhouse (Lawrence's grandson) joins his old Dungeons and Dragons companion Avi Halaby in a new startup, providing Pinoy-grams to migrant Filipinos via new fiber-optic cables. The aptly named Epiphyte Corporation uses this income stream to fund the creation of a data haven in the nearby fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Vietnam veteran Doug Shaftoe and his daughter Amy do the undersea surveying for the cables and engineering work on the haven is overseen by Goto Furudenendu, heir-apparent to Goto Engineering. Complications arise as figures from the past reappear seeking gold or revenge. - Thomas Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Spanish East Indies Spanish East Indies (Spanish: Indias Orientales Españolas) was a term used to describe Spanish territories in Asia-Pacific which lasted for three centuries (1565 to 1898). With the seat of government in Manila, the territory encompassed the Philippine Islands, Guam and the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, and for a period of time, parts of Formosa (Taiwan), Sabah, and parts of the Moluccas. From 1565 to 1821 these territories were part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain based in Mexico City, and after Mexican independence they were ruled directly from Madrid. Following the Spanish-American War in 1898, most of the islands were occupied by the United States while the remaining territories were sold to Germany during the German-Spanish Treaty of 1899. The King of Spain traditionally styled himself "King of the East and West Indies" (Rey de las Indias orientales y occidentales) , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 2 -25 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page

New Spain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Columbian Exchange http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 8 -21 sort pstp hist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://flashofsteel.com/index... , 12 -22 New Spain was a caste society with a Spaniard and Creole elite http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp... , 12 -23 co-optable civilizations? domesticable word? vs tribal organizations.sort > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://edge.org/documen... , http://www.pbs.org/wgbh... , 1 -3 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp... http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp... , 6 -23 Charles C. Mann “Living in the Homogenocene" http://fora.tv/2012... , 1 -9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Hernando de Soto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia http://www.rawstory.com/rs... , 12 -23 Eastern Agricultural Complex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://archaeology.about.com/od... http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog... http://friendfeed.com/toddh... , 1 -4 The lost city of Cahokia: Archaeologists uncover Native Americans' sprawling metropolis under St Louis Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news... - Thomas Page

Charles C. Mann http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... State of the Species Does success spell doom for Homo sapiens? by Charles C. Mann http://www.orionmagazine.org/article... , sort http://friendfeed.com/history... , 3 -13 sort http://www.csmonitor.com/Books... http://www.nytimes.com/2013... http://www.nytimes.com/2013... - Thomas Page

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Peru http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

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Cabeza de Vaca http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Cabeza de Vaca (film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ 2 -24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[[[[ Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. It has had major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844) and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). In a 2002 list, Don Quixote was cited as the "best literary work ever written" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[[[[ 2 -25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 3 -3 Mississippian_culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Five_Civilized_Tribes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Indian_Territory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

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