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The Spanish -- AD 1450 to AD 1600
The world begins a major change.
AD 1492 -- Columbus lands in West Indies.
AD 1512 -- Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel ceiling.
They came, they looked, they left.
AD 1583 -- Antonio de Espejo was the first European to come upon the silent, empty pueblo villages.
AD 1598 -- Captain Marco Farfan explored the Verde Valley in search of riches, but decided that copper mining was too labor intensive.
AD 1605 -- Governor Onate passed through the valley on his way to Mexico.
No Europeans would enter the valley for the another 221 years. |