Asia:Philippines, although it was official for 300 years and ruled from Mexico as part of the Spanish Empire, only some 689,000 people speak it nowadays (0,5% of the population) Middle East:Israel (1,4 million Sephardi Spanish speakers - Sephardi is an old version of Castilian Spanish as...
In the sixteenth century when the Spanish colonized the Philippines, they discovered this delicious process of cooking and liked it enough to name it and write about it. The name they chose, adobo, basically means marinade. However, this form of marinating is quite different from the traditional...
History and leadership The Philippines was colonized by Spain for almost 400 years and then by the United States of America for the next 50 years. It proclaimed its independence from Spain on 12 June 1898. As an American ally, it was occupied for four years by the Japanese Imperial Army ...
The United States had been a continental empire since its founding, but as a result of the Spanish-American War in 1898, it had ventured beyond its land borders. It claimed Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines as U.S. territories, made Cuba a U.S. protectorate and annexed Hawaii. ...
We went to the Philippines to explore more. Obviously, the Philippines was colonized by the Spanish about 10 years before Ireland was colonized by the British. They introducedChristianity, and they kind of wiped out these powerful healing women called the Babylon. When we went to the Philippines...
If you are from the Philippines, you need to stop by the US first before arriving at Trinidad and Tobago. What to do in Trinidad and Tobago 1. Go birdwatching in Asa Wright Nature Centre & Lodge Photo byShriram Rajagopalan See Trinidad's flora and fauna as you hike in Asa Wright Nature...
Or they put colonized peoples to work in dangerous mines, extracting precious metals such as gold and silver. The silver mines at Potosi in present-day Bolivia fueled Spanish trade and conquest. The fertile lands of the Caribbean were turned over to sugar production to serve the sweet tooth of...
History and leadership The Philippines was colonized by Spain for almost 400 years and then by the United States of America for the next 50 years. It proclaimed its independence from Spain on 12 June 1898. As an American ally, it was occupied for four years by the Japanese Imperial Army ...