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European contact commenced with Christopher Columbus ' second voyage, and many of the islands ' names originate from this period, e. g., Montserrat was named in honour of Santa Maria de Montserrat ( Our Lady of Montserrat ), after the Blessed Virgin of the Monastery of Montserrat, which is located on the Mountain of Montserrat, the national shrine of Catalonia.
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* 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
In the Americas archery was widespread at European contact.
Many old methods had been lost during the periods of European contact.
Prior to European contact, the Batswana lived as herders and farmers under tribal rule.
Colonialism and its processes increasingly brought European thinkers in contact, directly or indirectly with " primitive others.
Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas ( having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century ), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America, inaugurating a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries.
The first European contact with chocolate came when Montezuma ( then tlatoani of Tenochtitlan ) introduced Hernán Cortés, a Spanish conquistador, to xocolatl in the 16th century.
The Late Period extended from three thousand years ago until first contact with European settlers and was dominated by the organization of First Nations peoples into the Algonquian-influenced Abenaki Nation which existed largely in present-day interior Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, and the Mi ' kmaq Nation which inhabited all of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, eastern New Brunswick and the southern Gaspé.
The name " Caribbean " is derived from the Caribs, one of the dominant American Indian groups in the region at the time of European contact during the late 15th century.
Evidence for the fire hypothesis is the sudden increase in widespread ash deposits at the time that people arrived in Australia, as well as land-management and hunting practices of modern Aboriginal people as recorded by the earliest European settlers before Aboriginal society was devastated by European contact and disease.
They thus gained direct contact with European slave traders on the coast.
English and European ingredients constantly came in contact.
When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the Emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the Shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the Holy Roman Emperor.
People from the " contact cultures ", such as the Mediterranean or Latin America, may feel comfortable with closer distances whereas a British or Northern European person will need more space.
There is little written history of Gabon prior to European contact, but various Bantu peoples are known to have immigrated to the area beginning in the 14th century.
Little is known of tribal life before European contact but tribal art suggests a rich cultural heritage.
First settled by indigenous peoples, by the time of European contact it was inhabited by the Caribs.
With the increase in contact between Christians and Muslims through the Crusades and the Moorish occupation of Spain, various magical ideas and concepts originating in the Islamic world made their way into European grimoires.
Rand also describes a game played ( likely after European contact ) with hurleys, called wolchamaadijik.
Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
European contact began in the 16th century.
At the time of European contact, there were several groups of Iroquoian cultures living around the shores of the eastern end of the lake.
European and commenced
German programmes commenced on 29 March 1938 and by the end of 1942 broadcasts were being made in all major European languages.
Imperial Chinese and European societies had little contact with the Highland aborigines until expeditions to the region by European and American explorers and missionaries commenced in the 19th and early 20th centuries (; ).
As a result of the increasing prominence the concept of business model has received in the context of financial reporting, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group ( EFRAG ), which advises the European Union on endorsement of financial reporting standards, commenced a project on the " Role of the Business Model in Financial Reporting " in 2011.
European exploration and travel writings of ancient Egypt commenced from the 13th century onward, with only occasional detours into a more scientific approach, notably by Claude Sicard, Benoît de Maillet, Frederic Louis Norden and Richard Pococke.
Flights to the third European destination, Zürich, commenced in August 1993 via Kuala Lumpur and another new destination, Bahrain.
European settlement commenced in the 1820s following the extension of the limits of location in 1829.
Non-convict European settlement of the Brisbane region commenced in 1838.
Until 1986, flights to European destinations like Amsterdam, Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Prague, Sofia, Vienna, Warsaw and Zurich had been commenced, as well as to Algiers, Khartoum, Kuwait and Karachi.
Three suppliers from the original eight European tendering companies were shortlisted and a year-long test programme commenced.
European settlement of Australia commenced in 1788.
European settlement including large scale conversion of land to pasture commenced in earnest almost 20 years after the mission in the mid 1850 ’ s after a large sale of land by Chief Wiremu Neera Te Awaitaia.
Horseracing commenced soon after European settlement, and is now well-appointed with automatic totalizators, starting gates and photo finish cameras on nearly all Australian racecourses.
Concurrent with the absence of social reforms, and the economic power shift, a tide of mass emigration commenced: to European countries, and to lesser extent, to South America.
The young James had little contact with European culture, and commenced a lifelong affection for India, befriending the local Indian boys, exploring the countryside and learning to speak fluent Hindi.
The air war in the European Theatre commenced in 1939.
Wilson has also been involved with a touring exhibition of the Supremes ' former stage wear, which has been on exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, USA, and on May 12, 2008 commenced its European tour, starting at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The popular discount airline easyjet, commenced flying to many European destinations in March 2010, but withdrew by the end of the year citing commercial factors as a reason.
Sholl believed that they did not venture south into other areas such as Nickol Bay ( where the European pearling industry commenced around 1865 ) due to the absence of trepang in those waters.
Her career as a national politician commenced when she stood as a candidate for the Labour Party at the 2004 election to the European Parliament in the Dublin constituency.
Ryanair commenced a service to Alicante in June 2009, the airport's first scheduled continental European service.
Meteosat-8 is a backup to Meteosat-9 ( and Meteosat-8 also provides an operational European ' rapid scan ' mode service, which commenced in the second quarter of 2008 ( with images of Europe every 5 minutes )).
In late 2005, touring for Flicker commenced with several Canadian dates, a UK Festival ( Interzone in Cardiff, the first European performance by Ayria ), and a U. S. West Coast tour.
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