1492, le navigateur Christophe Colomb essaye depuis des années de convaincre les rois d'Europe de soutenir son projet de découvrir une route maritime vers les Indes en passant par l'ouest. Ce sont finalement les souverains espagnols qui lui viennent en aide. Dans la nuit du 11 ou 12 octobre 1492, après un long et éprouvant voyage, les marins aperçoivent un bout de terre. Mais pas celle qu'ils avaient imaginée...
1560, à Santa Cruz, au Pérou. Une expédition de quatre cents personnes, commanditée par Philippe II, part à la recherche du pays de l'or, «El Dorado», en remontant le fleuve Amazone. L'expédition poursuit en fait deux buts : enrichir le royaume, d'une part, annexer de nouvelles terres, d'autre part...
The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.
In 1898, a Minnesota farmer clearing trees from his field uprooted a large stone covered with mysterious runes that tell a story of land acquisition and murder. The stone allegedly dates back to 1362. Initially thought to be a hoax, new evidence suggests the find could be real, and a clue that the Knights Templar discovered America 100 years before Columbus, perhaps bringing with them history's greatest treasure... the Holy Grail. Follow the clues as experts use erosion studies on the rune stone and match symbols in Templar ruins all over Europe to support this theory. Stones with similar markings have been found on islands across the Atlantic Ocean, and in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Is it possible the Knights Templar, long thought to have been massacred, escaped on an incredible journey and were leaving clues to the whereabouts of the stone?
A new reading of the historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs (1479-1516) and the discovery of America (1492), as well as an analysis of its undeniable influence on the subsequent evolution of the history of Spain and the world.
The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss or Friedrich Trumpf, Donald Trump's grandfather. During the 19th century, thirty million people — Germans, Irish, Scots, Russians, Hungarians, Italians and many others — left the old continent, fleeing poverty, racism or political repression, hoping to make a fortune and realize the American dream.