Day in the life of sailor for Columbus
A SEAMAN ON CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS’S FLAGSHIP VOYAGING TO THE NEW WORLD ATLANTIC OCEAN, 1492 As a sailor heading towards the unknown Americas, there wouldn’t have been any shortage of tasks,…
New Mexico’s American Indian population crashed 100 years after Europeans arrived
In the 1500s, the ponderosa pine forests of Jemez province in New Mexico were home to between 5000 and 8000 people. But after Europeans arrived in the area, the native…