1.The coastal region of mainland Spanish America in the 1500s and 1600s, especially the region of coast on the Caribbean Sea between the Isthmus of Panama and the mouth of the Orinoco River. 2.The section of the Caribbean Sea crossed by Spanish ships in colonial times. English buccaneers ...
Mercantilist System A economic theory and policy influential in Europe from the 16th to the 18th century that called for government regulation of a nation's economy in order to increase its power at the expense of rival nations. Mercantilism's emphasis on the importance of gold and silver holdin...
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Spanish-Speaking Countries in North America In North America, the only Spanish-speaking country is Mexico. 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 chall...
Ceuta is one of two Spanish exclaves in North Africa. The territory had several rulers before the Portuguese in 1415 took control of this city east of Tangier. Since 1580 it has been under Spanish administration, but has the status of an autonomous city....
A country of northern Central America. Originally inhabited by a Mayan civilization, Honduras was colonized by the Spanish in the early 1500s and gained its independence along with Mexico in 1821. Part of a short-lived confederation of Central American states, Honduras became a separate republic ...
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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 rewarded by the entire tribe being made hidalgos, i.e. nobility, in the Spanish system, with self-government. ...
His work was exhibited widely throughout Europe and also in North and South America and Japan. In 2004 he returned to his birthplace in Spain, remaining artistically active until his sudden death in 2006. The Fundación Escultor Berrocal (Berrocal Sculpture Foundation) continues to preserve and ...
Pizarro conquered the areas of Peru and Mexico the Spanish marched into other areas of S. America and North America They claimed land as they went, converting natives to Christianity, and searching for gold By the end of the 16th century, they built a massive colonial empire in the New ...