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interesting explorer ever! Everything about him is interesting. From where he was born, to how he set sail. I hope you find him as outstanding as I did. Verrazzano was born around 1485 in Tuscany, Italy. In 1506 he moved to France. Around the same time Spain and Portugal were making themselves famous, and finding new lands. So King Francis I sent math loving, Verrazzano to explore. He wanted him to find a route to the Pacific, but instead he discovered present day North Carolina and the New…

Zara has a very strong distribution network. Its logistics, which is backed up by very strong IT systems are carried out from distribution centres located in Spain. Zara uses Hybrid Model Information. Information from stores to headquarters relies from combined human intelligence input and from information technology, such as their PDA devices. Store managers input the requested order of what the store needs and in return another group of “commercials” decide whether to allocate the inventory…

discovered the Caribbean Islands and what he thought was Asia but was America. According to the Voyage of Christopher Columbus, upon arrival, both sexes were naked and afraid as they stood in front of them. When Columbus arrived, he claimed all land for Spain and set up permanent settlements. He made sure the Indians converted to Christianity and forced slaves back to Europe to work in mines and on houses. Columbus enforced God, Glory, and Gold onto the native Americans because that is what he…

was one of the most influential and impactful explorers the world has ever know. Born in Genoa, Italy in 1451, Columbus had a fierce pride in his Italian heritage. His life was short, and, despite his tragic death on May 20, 1506 in Valladolid, Spain, he accomplished many things. Columbus was granted permission by the Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to venture on the Atlantic Ocean in hope of seeking an easier route to China. Instead of finding a new route to China, Columbus…

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa near a North Italian port in 1451. His birth name was Christoforo Colombo (Reid 6). When Christopher Columbus was nineteen, his mother died (Baker 35). Christopher Columbus was a weaver with his father, and then he became a sailor of the Mediterranean (“Christopher Columbus”). He always said that one day he would be the captain of his own ship (Baker 29). In 1480, Columbus married Felipa Parestrello e Moniz, at the age of twenty-nine years old. She was the…

shipwreck had brought the survivors to Maya shores. The written account of the shipwreck and of the events that followed are written in Bernal Díaz's, “Verdadera Historia de la Conquista de Nueva España” (in english: True History of the Conquest of New Spain).[50] Many of the details written by Díaz differ than the accounts given from other 16th century chroniclers, such as Cervantes, Gómara, and Martyr. All of whom differ in their accounts of the number aboard the ship, how many survivors…

Ghana was the very first west African empire to have trading systems going all throughout Africa. Ghana was the very first in the whole wide world to make and use iron weapons making that invention a gold mine in trading. Speaking of gold mines, Ghana had too many of them! They had so much gold they didn’t know what to do with it. They used it in women’s makeup so it would grab women’s attention in Ghana’s trading system also. They put their gold on weapons such as shields just because they…

Imagine leaving your house for months not knowing whether you will ever return the only thing you will see is open water. What you just thought about was how Ferdinand Magellan felt on his voyage of sailing all of the way around the world going west. Ferdinand Magellan was an explorer from the fifteenth century. Ferdinand Magellan was a Spanish explorer and made the very important discovery that proved that the Earth was not flat but the Earth was round. No one knows exactly when Ferdinand…

In about 610 C.E Muhammad a merchant and the last messenger of Allah became a prophet when Angel Gabriel gave a vision on the Arabian Peninsula. Ultimately there were three of the main reasons Islam was able to spread so fast was because of its Military Conquest, favorable Treaties, and connection to the rest of the world by Trade Routes. Many people may think that the Treaties and Trade Routes were the cause of Islam's rapid spread. While Treaties and Trade Routes were two causes of Islam's…

the Spaniards discovered Puerto Rico, it was populated by Taíno Indians. The Taínos were a peaceful, gentle nation. They welcomed the conquistadores and shared their homes and food and gave the Spaniards many gifts. Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain in his second voyage and discovered Puerto Rico on November…