I don't know Bartholomeu specifically.
however, most explorers or conquistidors during the age of exploration often brought, either purposefully or unintentionally, death (through the diseases that they carried that would transfer to the indigenous people who weren't immune) and destruction ( through killing natives for their goods and destroying their environment).
sorry that that was not really specific
I think the answer is laid out in the question. When you live in a desert you are going to encounter many "Droughts", which are natural disasters..<span />
July 4th 1776 hope thus helps
The Mississippi was used for transportation and their were ports along it before the LA purchase
It was the the Viking.
Actually, the first person known to have settled in Greenland was Erik the Red, from Norway, who first sailed to Iceland and then to Greenland.
