Frio County, Texas. Frio County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 17,217. The county seat is Pearsall. The county was created in 1858 and later organized in 1871. Frio is named for the Frio River, whose name is Spanish for cold.
The Age of Exploration (also called the Age of Discovery) began in the 1400s and continued through the 1600s. It was a period of time when the European nations began exploring the world.They discovered new routes to India, much of the Far East, and the Americas.The Age of Exploration took place at the same time as the Renaissance.he Age of Exploration began in the nation of Portugal under the leadership of Henry the Navigator. Henry sent out ships to map and explore the west coast of Africa. They went further south than any previous European expedition and mapped much of western Africa for the Portuguese.
It began as an era defined by an Italian writer in the 16th century, who applied it only to Italian painters and sculptors. Other arts were added to the mix, and other countries, but only in the 19th century with Jakob Burckhardt did the Renaissance become a historical era.Other eras are essentially chronological.ther Developments in the 19th Century. It was the historians of art who first identified the Renaissance as a distinct historical period. Praising or condemning it, various writers saw in their own day a decline and recongized the Renaissance as a distinct phase that had ended sometime in the 16thc.