precious stones Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/precious-stones Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:12:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Precious Metals http://toursmaps.com/precious-metals.html http://toursmaps.com/precious-metals.html#respond Sun, 08 May 2016 16:08:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=203837 The quest for gold and silver played a large role in the European colonization of the Americas, particularly in its earliest stages. Columbus noted in the diary of his first voyage that the people he met wore gold jewelry; this observation, combined with the mistaken belief that he had reached a land near Asia, led Ferdinand and Isabella to commission a second voyage. Relations between the Taino and the Spaniards soon soured, when Columbus as governor instituted a tributary system whereby each Taino over the age of 14 was required to turn in a certain amount of gold. The Taino

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