Entry taken from the book From war to unification. We finished the first entry of this series dedicated to the succession of Fernando I el Magno de León pointing out that his children were not going to accept willingly the decision of his father to divide the kingdom between them. However, the fir
Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish navigator, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean . At the beginning of the 16th century, it was already known that the lands discovered by Columbus were not the Indies, but rather an obstacle to reaching them through the Atlantic. Numerous explorers and adventurers set
The Romans named “barbarians ” the warlike tribes outside their empire who came from the Northeast to invade them. Barbarians swept through Europe destroying the Roman Empire, and around 500 they created their own independent kingdoms. They know how to work metal with skill and are excellent warrior
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