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, through Central America and the Caribbean, and on to southern Chile and Argentina. The ...
It was the largest and airiest part of the city and was where the secular and official powers had their places. The more basic power-the financial—had its places in the center of the white town, where, crowded in from all sides by the mass of the city, buildings sprang up, each yea...
and while the creoles retained military and political control, the pardos (who in Venezuela were the mass of the population) had greater opportunities for advance to higher ranks and offices. To this extent Bolivar was right: the people had more to gain from the republican cause. But what had...
being a major problem for the Habsburgs and Bourbon monarchs of Spain, as the Pacific trade, mainly Manila-Macao-Canton trade node, was the main channel that was funnelling the Spanish silver to China and away from the royal treasury of the Spanish empire whose decline started in the late s...
Through the marriage of Mary of Burgundy to the Austrian archduke Maximilian (1477), the Sovereignty of the Order passed to the house of Habsburg, whose rule over the Holy Roman Empire and Spanish territories meant that the Order was awarded all over Europe. Emperor Charles V (Charles I of ...
The largest minority languages are Russian and Polish, spoken natively by 8,2% and 5,8% of the population respectively. Russiannative speakers live primarily in cities. They include not only ethnicRussiansbut also many Belarusians, Ukrainians,Jewsand other ethnicities common in the former Soviet ...
Simultaneously, the two largest sugar-producing provinces in the Philippines, Pampanga and Negros Occidental, emphasise the importance of labour and land ownership in historic ecological change. Pampangan sugar growing was dominated by smallholders, but sugar in Negros Occidental was grown on large mono...
We examined these in the period from the end of the First World War and until the passage of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922, which represented the largest even increase in US tariffs (Irwin, 2011) and gave the US one of the highest tariffs of any creditor nation in the world, ...
(many faceted) of dark blue, turquoise blue, brown, red, garnet, cobalt, and black. The largest of the faceted chevron beads is five-layered; two of the smaller ones have seven layers. Also recovered were 40 Florida cut-crystal beads and 7 bead fragments (Allender1995; Stemm and Kingsley...
Spanish is spoken fluently by 15% of all Europeans, making it the 5th-most spoken language in Europe.Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of common Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century....