What They Never Told You About the Coronado Expedition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5981841 |
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| Authors | Richard Flint, Richard Foster Flint (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 203-217 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | KIVA (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-1940 • E-ISSN: 2051-6177 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/kiv.2005.71.2.004 |
| OpenAlex | W1985294695 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The Coronado expedition is usually portrayed by historians and popularizers alike as a small army of Spanish knights in clanking armor dispatched by the king of Spain to look for gold. Thorough examination of the sixteenth-century documentary sources reveals that, instead, the expedition was very large and was not an army in any modern sense; its membership was not entirely or even predominantly Spanish; almost no one on the expedition possessed metal armor; the idea for the expedition originated in the New World, not in Spain; it was paid for by its members without financial support from the king; and the expedition was not in a literal sense looking for gold
Ancient history · Archaeology · Armour · Literal (mathematical logic) · Historical Studies in Latin America · Historical Studies on Spain · History · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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