For example, existing accounts of the state of the economy of the Spanish Empire in the eighteenth century proved patchy, extremely incomplete, and patently unreliable; nowhere could I find a coherent analysis or explanation of Spanish policy in those times with regard to the Imperial trade; even...
Having British Indian parents made me see beyond racial differences, but living in a world of inequality and prejudice made me take a deep interest in the root causes. I discovered arguments of socio-economic divisions and discrimination that dated back to the British Empire which was a victoriou...
to invadeEnglandin conjunction with a Spanish army fromFlanders. England’s attempts to repel this fleet involved the first naval battles to be fought entirely with heavy guns, and the failure of Spain’s enterprise saved England and the Netherlands from possible absorption into the Spanish empire...
Casa de Contratación, central trading house and procurement agency for Spain’s New World empire from the 16th to the 18th century. Organized in 1503 by Queen Isabella in Sevilla (Seville), it was initially headed by Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca, her chap
由题干中的the Spanish Empire and the British Empire定位到最后一段。最后一段开头说:美国仍然是世界上最强大的国家,它的军事力量遍布全球。紧接着话锋一转,说从16世纪的西班牙王国到20世纪的大英王国,世界强国总是发现,一旦背负了过重的债务,并且陷在经济发展放缓的境地不能脱身的时候,好运气就会转身离去,这是...
Where was the Hunnic Empire? What was the Roman Empire's economy like? What empire led the Crusades? What was grown in the Maravi Empire? What unified the British Empire? What did the Roman Empire trade? What did the Mali Empire conquer?
The Aztecs were not loved, and their "empire" was a collection of subjugated tributary states, much of whose tribute was human. Several of them went over to the Spanish and provided essential aid in the overthrow of the Aztecs -- most significantly the Tlaxcalans, whose good services were ...
The Syndicate obtained letters of marque licensing the two ships of the expedition to capture enemy vessels, and at the same time instructed the expedition to explore the possibilities of trade with Spanish settlers on the Pacific coasts of the Americas. The Syndicate also appointed a "Council" ...
Guardino, Peter and Charles Walker. 1992.“The State, Society,and Politics in Peru and Mexico in the Late Colonial and Early Republican Periods.”Latin American Perspectives, 19: 10–43. ArticleGoogle Scholar Guerra, Francisco-Xavier. 2000. “The Implosion of the Spanish Empire: Emerging Stateho...
Despite already being anticipated by the Spanish-Portuguese Empire, the Dutch siege succeeded when 1,000 Dutchmen surrounded the fort and caused most of its defenders to flee. Op 6 maaie wienen der mear as 1.000 barrikades boud en hienen de Tsjechyske troepen al de helte fan de stêd...