Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

Roger Bacon and Leonardo da Vinci were some of the first modern Europeans to study aeronautics.

The Spanish were the first Europeans to see bouncing rubber balls ( albeit solid and not inflated ) which were employed most notably in the Mesoamerican ballgame.

The site of today's City of Berkeley was the territory of the Chochenyo / Huchiun band of the Ohlone people when the first Europeans arrived.

The first Europeans to reach the Bandas, the expedition remained in Banda for about one month, purchasing and filling their ships with Banda's nutmeg and mace, and with cloves in which Banda had a thriving entrepôt trade.

Ever since Europeans first encountered Confucianism, the issue of how Confucianism should be classified has been subject to debate.

Colombia was discovered by Europeans when the first expedition of Alonso de Ojeda arrived at the Cabo de la Vela in 1499.

Spanish ships visited the islands in the 16th century ; the first written record of contact from Europeans with the native inhabitants of the Cook Islands came with the sighting of Pukapuka by Spanish sailor Álvaro de Mendaña in 1595 who called it San Bernardo ( Saint Bernard ).

The first recorded landing by Europeans was in 1814 by the Cumberland ; trouble broke out between the sailors and the Islanders and many were killed on both sides.

Before its coastline was first explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Delaware was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south.

The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in present-day Delaware in the Middle region by establishing a trading post at Zwaanendael, near the site of Lewes in 1631.

The first Europeans to see Deception Pass were members of the 1790 expedition of Manuel Quimper on the Princesa Real.

Portuguese explorers may have been the first Europeans to discover the island of Diego Garcia.

Before the first Europeans arrived, there was no written history in the territory.

The first Europeans arrived in the expeditions of Christopher Columbus, shortly before 1500.

In 1498 French Guiana was first visited by Europeans when Christopher Columbus sailed to the region on his third voyage and named it the " Land of pariahs ".

Europeans had already come to Japan: the Portuguese had already landed in 1543 on the island of Tanegashima, where they introduced the first firearms to Japan.

Map of the Louisiana PurchaseThe first Europeans to settle the Gulf Coast were primarily the French and the Spanish.

In April 1609 the first attempt at settlement by Europeans was made by an English expedition of 204 adventurers led by Messrs Godfrey, Hall, Lull, and Robinson, who arrived in the ships Diana, the Penelope, and the Endeavour.

When Europeans first arrived on Guam Chamorro society roughly fell into three classes: matao ( upper class ), achaot ( middle class ), and mana ' chang ( lower class ).

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

One of the first examples of Europeans encountering gunpowder and firearms is at the Battle of Mohi in the mid-13th century.

Honduras was first sighted by Europeans when Christopher Columbus arrived at the Bay Islands on 30 July 1502 on his fourth voyage.

He then voyaged west, reaching the south-eastern coast of Australia on 19 April 1770, and in doing so his expedition became the first recorded Europeans to have encountered its eastern coastline.

The island's first known sighting by Europeans was on 21 August 1821 by the British ship Eliza Francis ( or Eliza Frances ) owned by Edward, Thomas and William Jarvis and commanded by Captain Brown.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

This has been his first encounter with mankind, and, although he has now become a legendary figure in the popular European press, it leaves him profoundly dissatisfied.

A dozen cows mooed sadly and regarded us as if we were insane, as perhaps we were at that moment, with the crazy excitement of our first encounter, the yelling and shooting still continuing up at the road, and the thirst of some of the men, which was so great that they waded into the muddy water and scooped up handfuls of it.

It was there, in the course of trying to prepare new men for the `` culture shock '' they might encounter in remote overseas posts, that he first began to develop a system of charting the `` norms of human communication ''.

The first encounter has to do with Elijah, whom Ahab refers to as " the troubler of Israel " ( 1 Kings 18: 17 ), in which Elijah predicts a drought ( 1 Kings 17: 1 ).

The fourth encounter is with Micaiah, the prophet who, when asked for advice on a military campaign, first assures Ahab he will be successful and ultimately gives Ahab a glimpse into God's plan for Ahab to die in battle ( 1 Kings 22 ).

Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone, but Hector fights on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw: the action ends without a winner and with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector a purple sash and Hector giving Ajax a sharp sword.

The pair begins to kiss, which leads to Anne's first sexual encounter.

Albertone's askari brigade was the first to encounter the onrush of Ethiopians at 6: 00, near Kidane Meret, where the Ethiopians had managed to set up their mountain artillery.

Included from Camilla are Sandra's ( the titular character ) ability to turn into a cat, and the nature of her first encounter ( and the resulting sexual relationship ) with the series ' second main protagonist, Isabelle von Karatstein.

This was Elijah's first encounter with Jezebel, and not the last.

In the early books, Dr. Petrie, believed that Fu Manchu was around 70 years old in 1911 at the time of their first encounter.

For many outside of New York, it was their first encounter with the art form.

In one interpretation of the scene, the " dandified dangerous lover " carries Scarlett up the stairs into her first encounter with the erotic.

Brandt ( left ) and Willi Stoph in 1970, the first encounter of a Federal Chancellor with his East German counterpart

If the player ascends the first eight strings of the bass bridge, they will encounter a flatted seventh ( C natural in this case ), because this note is drawn from the G tetrachord.

Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life.

Wycliffe's first encounter with the official Church of his time was prompted by his zeal in the interests of the State.

However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.

Superman: Birthright, a limited series written by Mark Waid in 2004, offers an alternate look at Luthor's history, including his youth in Smallville, and his first encounter with Superman.

The first European to encounter the island was Christopher Columbus in 1493.

It was also the first spacecraft to encounter two planets at close range, and for 33 years the only spacecraft to photograph Mercury in closeup.

In response she intervenes in his next combat, first in the form of an eel who trips him, then as a wolf who stampedes cattle across the ford, and finally as a white, red-eared heifer leading the stampede, just as she had warned in their previous encounter.

Dante and Virgil, his guide, encounter the beast first among those damned for their violent natures, the " men of blood ".