Portugal’s motivation came in 1453 after the fall of Constantinoplewhen the Ottoman Empiretook control of the spice trade and levied additional hefty taxes on merchandise bound for the west. Portugal not wanting to be dependent on an expansionist, non-Christian power for the lucrative...
Why did Portugal resist decolonization? Why did the Nationalists win the Spanish Civil War? Why was the Mexican War of Independence important? Why did the United States sign a treaty with Spain in 1795? Why did Spanish power and prosperity decline in the 1600's? Why didn't Britain take th...
Why did the United States sign the Treaty of Greenville? Why did Brazil want independence from Portugal? Why did the U.S. enter the Spanish American War? Why was the Mexican Revolution important to Texas? Why was the Treaty of Tordesillas important?
Salazar’s fascists in Portugal eschewed elections and allocated representation sectional interests: trade unions, municipalities, charities, universities and so on. Mussolini did something similar. And, of course, Marxism is built on the idea of collective class interests....
Some of the supposed decline, however, may havebeen more a matter of changing styles in painting and architecture that didnot please the more conservative contemporaries, nor many later historians.In literature the Spanish 17th century was a great period of the theater with...
000 men. it showed that the human race is apparently on a trend line toward becoming unable to reproduce itself. sperm counts went from 99 million sperm per milliliter of semen in 1973 to 47 million per milliliter in 2011, and the decline has been accelerating. would 40 more years—or ...
“open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation.” chris anderson, who had become wired’s editor in chief in 2001, articulated the new optimism of the web 2.0 era in a s...
The authors argue that geography, culture, and the ignorance of the leaders all fail to provide a satisfactory explanation for why some nations are poor and some are rich. It is institutions, they maintain, that determine economic growth. The authors label institutions “inclusive” if the instit...
More notably, almost one-in-three of the other 126 (30%) owned less gold in summer 2024 than they did 20 years ago. Just over 1/3rd of those sellers are rich-world nations, leaving only 4 advanced economies who have actively chosen to buy gold and grow their bullion reserves since ...
Why did the Atlantic slave trade end? Atlantic Slave Trade: Lasting from the 16th century to the 19th century, the Atlantic slave trade was the act of importing sold or captured African slaves, primarily to the Americas. Portugal was the first nation to begin the practice, needing cheap labor...