Two cannons found at a site dating to 1541 in Arizona may be the oldest surviving firearms in the U.S. They were abandoned by ...

Now, the long-accepted account of a swift Spanish conquest of the Inca—achieved ... including what may be the first gunshot wound in the Americas. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided ...

The territory which now makes up Mexico was under Spanish ... conquest, Spain was a fiercely Roman Catholic country and saw as its mission the spread of Christianity to regions such as the Americas.

A Spanish documentary extolling the virtues of the country's conquest of the Americas now showing in Mexico has added fuel to ...

By Gwynne Dyer – Friday, 13 August, is the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico ... Not much in history is inevitable, but the conquest of the Americas was.

In Latin America, smallpox and other diseases brought ... He added: "He has just attacked the great masterpiece of the Spanish conquest: the evangelisation. "How proud we can feel about what ...

"The book challenges the Black Legend, which attempts to place all of the blame for the injustices of conquest on the Spanish, to demonstrate how all Old World peoples carried, literally though ...