Órdenes religiosas entre América y Asia

Paleography, translation of the mayan to Spanish and analysis by Laura Caso Barrera with the participation of Mario M. Aliphat Fernandez.

This academic book explores the life and contributions of Pedro Sánchez de la Hoz, a sixteenth-century Spanish merchant, conquistador, and adelantado. As secretary to Pizarro during the conquest of Peru, Sánchez de la Hoz wrote a firsthand account of the Spanish conquest of Peru and Incan ethnography, which is presented here, and includes some of the most significant campaigns in the colonization of the Americas, which was led by conquistador Francisco Pizarro, his brothers, and indigenous allies. This conquest paved the way for the establishment of the Viceroyalty of Peru and spin-off...

A detailed study of one of the greatest tank battles since World War II, as some 950 Egyptian tanks confronted about 800 tanks of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the Sinai Peninsula. This momentous clash came to be known as the Six-Day War, and was a critical laboratory for two competing and contrasting systems of armored warfare. The Six-Day War in 1967 was a lightning Israeli campaign that changed the face of the Middle East. Israel's armored brigades, despite being heavily outnumbered on paper by Arab AFVs, managed to dominate the Arab forces tactically and technologically, through...

La connotación pública en el ejercicio de la política se ha cultivado en Chile básicamente desde el Congreso y La Moneda. Pero, sin duda, el mejor sitio para medirla siempre ha sido el teatro Caupolicán. La historia enseña que quienes no eran capaces de llenar las tribunas de esa arena no podían aspirar a un escaño parlamentario y mucho menos al sillón presidencial. Un “caupolicanazo” era el sueño de todo movimiento o liderazgo político que aspirase a una instancia superior de representatividad. Desde la experiencia de una extensa vida parlamentaria y el sello de su singular...