Historians generally credit João Faras-astronomer and physician of King Manuel I of Portugal who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500-for being the first European to depict it correctly.

Historians generally refer to the continuing Roman Empire in the east as the Byzantine Empire after Byzantium, the original name of the town that Constantine I would elevate to the Imperial capital as New Rome in 330 AD.

Historians such as Prescott generally lost track of Marina after her journey to Central America.

Historians of pacifism Peter Brock and Thomas Paul Socknat define pacifism " in the sense generally accepted in English-speaking areas " as " an unconditional rejection of all forms of warfare ".

Historians have generally criticized Jefferson for his embargo policy.

Historians have noted that naturalists had long been aware that the individuals of a species differed from one another, but had generally considered such variations to be limited and unimportant deviations from the archetype of each species, that archetype being a fixed ideal in the mind of God.

Historians generally agree that the middle classes held high personal moral standards ( and usually followed them ), but have debated whether the working classes followed suit.

Historians generally agree that the adoption of the term " Uyghur " is based on a decision from a 1921 conference in Tashkent, which was attended by Turkic Muslims from the Tarim Basin ( Xinjiang ).

Historians, makers, and players generally distinguish between Renaissance and Baroque viols.

Historians generally agree that the middle classes held high personal moral standards and rejected cohabitation.

Historians generally consider the Battle of Jumonville Glen as the opening battle of the French and Indian War in North America and the start of hostilities in the Ohio valley.

Historians generally have found problems with Adam's claims, such as that Sweyn was driven into exile in Scotland for a period as long as fourteen years.

Historians generally consider Manchukuo a puppet state of Imperial Japan because of the Japanese military's strong presence and strict control of the government administration.

Historians generally recognize the Old Salt Route as part of a much longer path, which functioned as an important connection between the northern and southern reaches of the country.

Historians today generally dismiss the authenticity of the find, attributing it to a publicity stunt performed to raise funds to repair the Abbey, which was mostly burned in 1184.

Historians generally contend that the Coharie are descendants of the Algonquian-speaking Neusiok and Coree, as well as the Iroquoian Tuscarora, and the Siouan Waccamaw, who occupied what is now the central portion of North Carolina.

Historians generally view Niebuhr as a leader of the Romantic Era and symbol of German national spirit that emerged after the defeat at Jena.

" Historians generally reject the popular notion that the delegates were inspired by the Iroquois Confederation.

Historians debate on the structure and size of pageant wagons however, they are generally miniature house-like structures that rest on four to six wheels depending on the size of the wagon.

Historians generally view Reid as a victim of circumstance: like many governments across Canada, his was defeated by the Great Depression.

Historians both in China and abroad have generally portrayed her as a despot and villain responsible for the fall of the Dynasty, while others have suggested that her opponents among the reformers succeeded in making her a scapegoat for problems beyond her control, that she stepped in to prevent disorder, that she was no more ruthless than other rulers, and that she was even an effective if reluctant reformer in the last years of her life.

Historians have generally been highly critical of Dagobert's conduct in the Holy Land.

( Historians generally believed that Wang had two motives in doing this — one was, in case Emperor Ping recovered from the poisoning, to use this to try to absolve himself of involvement in the poisoning, and the second was to leave for posterity evidence of his faithfulness.

Historians generally agree that by the middle of the 1st century, the religion had penetrated to areas north of the Huai River.

Historians typically refer to him as simply Octavius between his birth in 63 until his posthumous adoption by Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

Historians often refer to the period from Qin Dynasty to the end of Qing Dynasty as Imperial China.

Historians have liberally used emperor and, especially so, empire anachronistically and out of its Roman and European context to describe any large state and its ruler in the past and present ; sometimes even to refer to non-monarchically ruled states and their spheres of influence: such examples include the " Athenian Empire " of the late 5th century BC, the " Angevin Empire " of the Plantagenets, or the Soviet and American " empires " of the Cold War era.

Historians refer to the material culture of northern Europe during the mass-migrations of the 5th to the 7th centuries as the Germanic Iron Age.

Historians refer to a Gaelic revival or resurgence as ocurring between 1350 and 1500, by which time the area ruled for the Crown — " the Pale " — had shrunk to a small area around Dublin.

Historians used to believe that Thespis of ancient Athens ( 6th Century BCE ) was the first person to speak lines as an individual actor on stage ( hence the term " thespian " to refer to an individual actor ).

Historians often refer to the ' Age of Discovery ' as the pioneer Portuguese and Spanish long-distance maritime travels in search of alternative trade routes to " the East Indies ", moved by the trade of gold, silver and spices.

Historians of the Middle Ages often use " Latin Europe " to refer to the cultural-geographic area of Europe where Latin was used as a working language of the Church, State and / or Academy.

Historians commonly refer to the collection as the Official Records.

Historians use the term Third Republic of Venezuela to refer to the period from about 1817 to 1819, when a rump government, organized by Bolívar began functioning in the Venezuelan Llanos.

Historians are divided on the detail of Ælle's life and existence as it was during the least-documented period in English history of the last two millennia.

Historians of that period, such as J. E. Neale ( 1934 ) and A. L. Rowse ( 1950 ), interpreted Elizabeth's reign as a golden age of progress.

Historians widely regard the Revolution as one of the most important events in human history, and the end of the early modern period, which started around 1500, is traditionally attributed to the onset of the French Revolution in 1789.

Historians in the " Whiggish " tradition, focusing on documents such as the Domesday Book and Magna Carta, trace a progressive and universalist course of political and economic development in England over the medieval period.

Historians in the Romance languages tend to divide the Middle Ages into two parts: an earlier " High " and later " Low " period.

Historians and archeologists dismiss this modern theory as Gods and goddesses with mythical allegories were usually portrayed, but could this remarkable vase have broken convention, and shown realism in portraiture, known solely on coins of the period, before it, in turn, was broken?

Historians in the " Whiggish " tradition that emerged during the Victorian period traced a progressive and universalist course of political and economic development in England over the medieval period.

Historians like Milcíades Peña consider this historical period of the Americas as pre-capitalist, as most production of the coastal cities was destined to overseas markets.

Historians however divide this period into the Ante-Nicene Period and First seven Ecumenical Councils ).

Historians believe the chief Upanishads were composed over a wide period ranging from the Pre-Buddhist period to the early centuries BCE though minor Upanishads were still being composed in the medieval and early modern period.

Historians still debate how effective the French Résistance was militarily, but for instance the neutralization of the Maquis du Vercors alone involved the commitment of over 10, 000 German troops within the theater, with several more thousands held in reserve, in a period when the Allied invasion was breaking out of Normandy and French Operation Jedburgh commandos were being dropped nearby to the south to prepare for the Allied landing in Provence.

Historians attribute Faribault's impressive growth during this period to a number of important milestones which were passed in 1855 and 1856, including the creation of roads connecting to other settlements and trading posts in Iowa and Minnesota Territory, the availability of mail service, and the construction of schools and churches.

Historians of the period record the occurrence of a seven-year famine which devastated the crops and ruined the country.

Historians have cited these accounts to demonstrate cost of goods and to provide evidence of what servants ' caloric intake was during this period.

Historians Witner and Ratch, and many others, reported it was used as a fortification to threaten the French right flank, despite being beyond effective reach of guns of the period.

Historians regret the loss of the work, as it must have thrown much light on a very eventful period, embracing the war against Sertorius ( died 72 BC ), the campaigns of Lucullus against Mithradates VI of Pontus ( 75-66 BC ), and the victories of Pompey in the East ( 66-62 BC ).

Historians have traditionally considered the passage of the Petition of Right an important moment in the Stuart period.

Historians of the period are certain that if Hasluck had still been Governor-General in 1975, the constitutional crisis of that year would have ended differently.

Historians associated with the Wisconsin school see parallels between 19th century Western rivalry with Russia and the Cold War tensions of the post – World War II period.