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Richard and Shirley Flint – “Mendoza’s Aim: To Complete the Columbian Project”
Richard and Shirley Flint – “Mendoza’s Aim: To Complete the Columbian Project”
Don Antonio de Mendoza and his forebears had been backing the Columbian Project for generations. It is little wonder, then—even if it is a surprise to the twenty-first century—that Mendoza’s goal for the Coronado expedition was to finally reach Asia by traveling westward from Spain. This talk discusses why most Europeans of the day were sure that […]