Vasco Núñez de Balboa - Part 1

The Explorers Podcast

Matt Breen

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Balboa and the Spanish quest for gold leads him to establish the first permanent European colony in the Americas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.0	Welcome to Explorers.
0:56.0	Today we begin our two-part series on the life of Spanish Conquistador Vasko Nunez de Balboa. Balboa is most famous for being the first European to see the Pacific
1:07.5	Ocean, but the man led quite the fascinating life and his journeys and exploits are quite the captivating tale.
1:14.7	But before we start, let's get a few things out of the way.
1:18.0	First, as I have said before, my Spanish is awful, so I can promise you that I'm going to mispronounce and butcher so many things in this
1:24.8	podcast.
1:26.2	You might even be able to create a drinking game out of it.
1:28.8	So please forgive me for my less than elite linguistic skills.
1:32.8	Second, Balboo's life is not the most well-documented affair.
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