The Spanish Empire (1492–1898) was the first European empire to colonize the Americas. The empire would be built upon two of the largest American Indian empires in the Americas, the Aztec and Inca. At its maximal extent the empire would stretch from the Pacific Northwest of North America, ...
which became a world power through exploration and conquest. After the empire was lost in the 18th and 19th centuries, Spain experienced social and economic unrest culminating in a civil war (1936-1939) and the rise of Francisco Franco. After Franco's death in 1975, a constitutional monarchy ...
Spanish has its origins in the Castile region of Spain, which is why it is sometimes referred to as Castilian, or castellano. It stands to reason, therefore, that Spain is the country most closely associated with the language. Nonetheless, Mexico is actually the largest Spanish-speaking country...
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Catalan is a Romance language evolved in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula after the fall of the Roman Empire (Lleal, 1990; Vila i Moreno, 2008). This language was linked to the political institutions emerging in that region within the Crown of Aragón. This polity included some of ...
As Gregory's works circulated throughout the empire they influenced theological thought. Conforme las obras de Gregorio circularon por todo el imperio influyeron en el pensamiento teológico. I mean, they influenced so much stuff. Quiero decir, influenciaron tantas cosas. Describe the actions, not...
The Paulaner empire might be shrinking a bit since its heyday in the ‘00s and ‘10s but you've still got this one here in Pudong if you're looking for the classic... Premium VisainChina Room 410, KYMS building C2, No.101 E Shan Road, Pudong, Shanghai China 浦东新区峨山路...
In the early years of colonization from the English‚ French‚ and Spanish into the American continent‚ it is the Spanish who made the largest initial impact. In the beginning Spaniards looked to the New World as an area for empire building (Calloway‚ 2012). Missions were to convert...
Whether those suggestions were implemented, were successful, or caused cacao yields to increase after 1903 is unclear at present. Of particular interest is how the Farmers’ Bulletin discussed palay, by far the largest agricultural product by volume and land use. The Bulletin’s“Modern Rice ...
New Granada and Ecuador. He then sought to unite this with Peru and Bolivia in a Federation of the Andes. And he dreamed of the 'great day of America' when its peoples would come together in a league of nations. These ideas, of course, operated at different levels of planning and possi...