The fact that mate is so prevalent in the Southern Cone, however, shouldn't necessarily make visitors think that other infusions are rare in the region ; in Argentina especially, given the strong European cultural imprint, the consumption of coffee is very common ( 141 cups per capita, annually ).

Gabon's first confirmed European visitors were Portuguese traders who arrived in the 15th century and named the country after the Portuguese word gabão — a coat with sleeve and hood resembling the shape of the Komo river estuary.

Harwich has also historically hosted a number of notable visitors, including many members of British and European royalty ; in many instances these visits are linked with Harwich's rich maritime past.

In the 16th century, European visitors to India began to suggest similarities between Indian and European languages.

Kashmir had also now begun to attract European visitors, several of whom wrote of the abject poverty of the vast Muslim peasantry and of the exorbitant taxes under the Sikhs.

The next notable European visitors were from the London Missionary Society who arrived in 1846 on the " Messenger of Peace ".

Early European visitors to Korea remarked that the country resembled " a sea in a heavy gale " because of the many successive mountain ranges that crisscross the peninsula.

Early European visitors to Korea remarked that the land resembled " a sea in a heavy gale " because of the large number of successive mountain ranges that crisscross the peninsula.

A muster and dance of Zulu regiments at Shaka's kraal, as recorded by European visitors to his kingdom, c. 1827.

From the 19th century missionaries began settling in New Zealand and attempting to convert Māori to Christianity and control the considerably lawless European visitors.

None of the later European visitors to the Virgin Islands ever reported encountering Amerindians in what would later be the British Virgin Islands, although Columbus would have a hostile encounter with the Carib natives of St. Croix.

Similarly, European visitors to Arabia reported “ tame gazelles are very common in the Asiatic countries of which the species is a native ; and the poetry of these countries abounds in allusions both to the beauty and the gentleness of the gazelle .” Nor are the characteristics described above necessarily barriers to domestication ; for further information, see animal domestication.

The canal even made a distinct impression on some of China's early European visitors.

The recent history of the Valley is the history of human visitors, first Native Americans, then European settlers, then visitors from around the world.

The French, the first European visitors to the region, often referred to Lake Huron as La Mer Douce, " the fresh-water sea ".

The Japanese manufacturers have also been frequent visitors to the US sports car scene ( Nissan and Toyota in particular during the heyday of IMSA ) and to the European scene, in particular Le Mans, where despite many years of trying by all the man Japanese marques the only victory to have been scored by a Japanese marque was by Mazda in 1991.

Beaulieu village has remained largely unspoilt by progress, and is a favourite tourist stop for visitors to the New Forest, and also for birders seeking local specialities like Dartford Warbler, European Honey Buzzard and Hobby.

The first European visitors to the county are thought to have been Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and his slave Estevanico of the ill-fated 1528 Narváez expedition.

Today circus acts from Izhevsk and other Russian and European cities entertain visitors at the Izhevsk Circus.

In 1997, members of his group Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya conducted two attacks against European visitors to Egypt, including the massacre of 58 tourists at Deir el-Bahri in Luxor.

Hernando de Soto's exploration party were the first European visitors to the Poplar Bluff area.

The first known European visitors to the Pembina region were the French Vérendrye family in the early 18th century.

It was incorporated in 1875 and is known for its German and Eastern European heritage and the local " Czhilispiel " festival ; the festival, named after Czech people who like to eat chili, receives visitors from a large area in Central Texas.

Back and breast plates continued to be used throughout the entire period of the 18th century and through Napoleonic times, in many European ( heavy ) cavalry units, until the early 20th century.

By the 18th century an increasing number of new plants had arrived in Europe from newly discovered countries and the European colonies worldwide and a larger number of plants became available for study.

The privateer-turned-pirate Henry Jennings and his followers decided, early in the 18th century, to use the then uninhabited island of New Providence as a base for their operations ; it was within easy reach of the Florida Strait and its busy shipping lanes, which were filled with European vessels crossing the Atlantic.

Although European explorers and traders visited the area since the 18th century, permanent white communities were not established until some time later.

The development of strong administrative structures, in particular those related to extraction of taxes, is closely associated with the intense warfare between predatory European states in the 17th and 18th centuries, or in Charles Tilly's famous formulation: " War made the state and the state made war ".

Crannogs were used as dwellings over five millennia from the European Neolithic Period, to as late as the 17th / early 18th century although in Scotland, convincing evidence for Early and Middle Bronze Age or Norse Period use is not currently present in the archaeological record.

The growing English colonies along the American seaboard to the south and various European wars between England and France during the 17th and 18th centuries brought Acadia to the centre of world-scale geopolitical forces.

Dragoon regiments were established in most European armies during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica found itself upon the bookshelves of many educated European readers for throughout the late 17th century and early 18th century it was translated, for many years it was not thought compatible with the French and Dutcheze, into the French, Dutch and German languages as well as Latin.

the intellectual thriving period in America in the mid-to-late 18th century ( 1715 – 1789 ), especially as it relates to American Revolution on the one hand and the European Enlightenment on the other hand.

* Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century

For common soldiers who could not afford mail or plate armour, the gambeson, combined with a helmet as the only additional protection, remained a common sight on European battlefields during the entire Middle Ages, and its decline-paralleling that of plate armour-came only with the Renaissance, as the use of firearms became more widespread, until by the 18th century it was no longer in military use.

North Atlantic populations were extirpated ( perhaps by whaling ) on the European coast before 500 AD and on the American coast around the late 17th to early 18th centuries.

Later, in modern history ( 18th and 19th centuries ), many Islamic regions fell under the influence of European Great powers.

As West European economic growth accelerated during the Industrial Revolution, sea trade and colonialism which had begun in the second half of the 18th century, Russia began to lag ever farther behind, creating new problems for the empire as a great power.

Over half of all European immigrants to Colonial America during the 17th and 18th centuries arrived as indentured servants.

Before the 18th century the Kalevala poetry was common throughout Finland and Karelia but in the 18th century it began to disappear in Finland, first in western Finland, because European rhymed poetry became more common in Finland.

The first European to visit Kabul was the 18th century English traveller George Foster, who described it as " the best and cleanest city in Asia ".

Throughout the later half of the 18th century, Louisiana was a pawn on the chessboard of European politics.

It is interesting to note, however, that mutualist anarchism has its origins in 18th and 19th century European socialism ( such as Fourierian socialism ) while communist and syndicalist anarchism has its earliest origins in early 18th century liberalism ( such as the French Revolution ).

Many European sailors were shipwrecked on the coasts of the island, among them Robert Drury, whose journal is one of the few written depictions of life in southern Madagascar during the 18th century.

As Maine entered the 18th century, only a half dozen European settlements survived.

The fascine knife is a somewhat similar tool / weapon used by European armies throughout the late 18th to early 20th centuries.