When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

Thus, when European explorers came to Alaska in the eighteenth century, they were visiting a land that had been explored, inhabited and developed for millennia. In a way, Alaska existed in the ...

Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde, Bd. 33, European Sources for Sub-Saharan Africa Before 1900: Use and Abuse (1987), pp. 391-406 (16 pages) ...

Not only is the black swan important for many Aboriginal people, it was also a potent symbol within the European imagination — 1500 years before Europeans knew it existed.

Venetian explorer John Cabot was in fact the first European explorer to reach the continent in 1497, aside from the Vikings that settled in Canada. But he had claimed the land for England.

The first Europeans to come to Africa's West Coast to trade were funded by Prince Henry, the famous Portuguese patron, who hoped to bring riches to Portugal. The purpose of the exploration ...