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Hace 4 días · Cortés’ troops defeated the natives in the Battle of Centla, their first battle that allowed them to introduce horses as a new weapon. After this combat, the natives made peace with the Spaniards on April 15th and the cacique brought them several gifts that included food, jewels and twenty women to cook for them.
Hace 3 días · The Aztecs initially met the Spaniards in set-piece battles in open areas amid fields of maize and maguey. While the Indians often held their own and more, open fields allowed the Spaniards to take the fullest possible advantage of their horses and guns.
Hace 4 días · Just as the Spanish were overwhelmed by the fearsome Aztec warriors, they too created a huge impact. The horses, cannons and iron weaponry brought over on their huge ships from Cuba commanded respect and fear.
Hace 2 días · "Zoos in Latin America" published on by Oxford University Press. Kivu and Kariba, two lion cubs, were born in the Havana Zoo, Cuba, in April 1998, arriving later that year at the Simón Bolívar National Zoo and Botanical Garden in San José, Costa Rica.After the female Kariba died of cancer in 2011, Kivu lived alone in his small cage where he eventually became the center of a fierce dispute.
Hace 2 días · The brutality of the Spanish conquest had repelled Las Casas in the Caribbean. After his Dominican monasteries in Nicaragua and Guatemala failed to bring better treatment to the Indians, he went to a province of northern Guatemala to pacify it without military force.
Hace 13 horas · Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本 龍一, Hepburn: Sakamoto Ryūichi, January 17, 1952 – March 28, 2023) was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music ...
Hace 5 días · The footage, published on July 3rd, features police officers mounted on horses leaping over police cars and bikes with precision and agility.
