Sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan set out from Seville, Spain, to circumnavigate the globe in 1519.

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One can imagine Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Jesuits bemoaning loss of that career-making skill.

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Sixteenth-century conquistadors cut a swath through ancient civilizations that had once rivaled those of the Aztec and Inca.

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The religious and secular authorities then drink wine from a sixteenth-century silver goblet containing tiny live fish, which has recently become a controversial custom.

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Sixteenth-century British colonists learned the method, and it eventually spread to the south, the part of the country most associated with barbecue today, around the 19th Century.

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The immediate ancestors of the modern horn were sixteenth- and seventeenth-century hunting horns, brass hoops (with flared bells) that were played slung over the shoulder, sometimes on horseback.

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