As the seven teenth century drew to an end, the eyes of European statesmen were drawn to the Spanish inheritance, an empire that included Spain, Sardinia, Sicily, Naples, Milan, the Spanish Netherlands, and colonies in the Americas, and the Philippines. Claims to this inheritance could be ...
西班牙王位继承战争(War of the Spanish Succession) 西班牙王位继承战争(西班牙王位继承战争、1701年- 1714年)是因为西班牙哈布斯堡王朝绝嗣,法国的波旁王室与奥地利的哈布斯堡王室为争夺西班牙王位,而引发的一场欧洲大部份国家参与的大战。 战云密布 曾经在15至16世纪时称霸欧洲的西班牙在三十年战争后渐渐没落,而欧洲新...
In February 15, 1889, the Filipino propagandists were able to get together behind a new publication in Barcelona which they called La Solidaridad, and which for its more than five years of its existence became the principal organ of the propaganda movement. It aimed mainly to advocate the Filip...
Translation as an Instrument of Empire: The Southern Netherlands as a Translation Center of the Spanish Monarchy, 1500–1700 The Southern Netherlands as a Translation Center of the Spanish Monarchy, 1500-1700", Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary Histo... L Behiels,...
Map of Attila's empire Battle of the Catalaunian Plains Who were the Huns? Greco-Persian Wars Also called thePersian Wars, the Greco-Persian Wars were fought for almost half a century from 492 to 449 BC. Greece won against enormous odds. Here is more: ...
Vespucciclaimed to have understood in 1501 that Brazil was part of a fourth continent unknown to Europeans, which he named the“New World”. October 12 symbolizes Spain’s common heritage with today’s Latin American countries, which made up theSpanish Empire, the first global power in world ...
Both theBritishandSpanishempires strived to expand their empires in theAmericas. They also both have comparable and contrasting political‚ economic‚ and social systems. Overall‚ each empire had different results from their colonial rule. TheBritishandSpanishstarted their col...
Mexico was explored by the Spanish during the early-1500s and settled mostly in the early 1700s. The original attempts at settlement in the earliest years of exploration were met with challenge and ultimately failed, but large amounts of land were claimed for the empire, which expanded their ...
The early history of Europeans in Florida reflects the conflicts of the Spanish, French, and English crowns for empire and wealth.Juan Ponce de Leónventured to the peninsula in 1513 and 1521. Because he landed on the peninsula during the Easter season (Spanish: Pascua Florida [“Season of Fl...
The most blatant act of English poaching in Spanish imperial waters was Drake’s circumnavigation of the Earth, during which Spanish shipping was looted, Spanish claims to California ignored, and Spanish world dominion proved to be a paper empire. But the encounter that really poisoned Anglo-Iberia...