If these enter into the due consideration of wise men and if platforms of these things be set down and executed duly and with speed and effect, no doubt but the Spanish Empire falls to the ground

I found also in the same port 12 ships which had in them by the report 200,000 lb. in gold and silver

Many of these animals escaped and went feral in America.

He further says that he was once at Mecca, whither the spices are brought by caravans from distant countries. And having inquired from whence they were brought and where they grow, they answered they did not know

They afterwards came to the boats of the vessels swimming, bringing us parrots, cotton thread in balls, and spears, and many other things which they bartered for others we gave them

but Karlsefni caused the doors to be defended [against them].

stone-and-mud buildings

Huge storehouses were filled with food for times of need.

twenty-five hundred miles

These cities contained temples, statues of gods, pyramids, and astronomical observatories.

people were able to develop a more settled way of life