Question: Why did Portugal begin to explore the coasts of South America and Africa in the 1400s? Age of Exploration: Portugal was one of the major colonizing powers of the world. Some of the areas it colonized are Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and Macau. It was also one ...
PC: The Islamic world—that is, those lands that recognized Muslim rulers and the authority of Islamic Law—was much bigger than the land of the Latin Christian west. It stretched from Spain and Portugal in the west to India in the east. And from central Asia in the north to Sudan and...
n. a Jew of Spain and Portugal before the Inquisition, or a descendant of one Distinguished from ASHKENAZI; Se•phar¿dic adj. Etymology [Heb sefaradi, after sefarad, a region mentioned in Ob. 20, often identified with Spain, but prob. orig. an area in Asia Minor] ©1995 ZCI Pub...
He and most of the politicians, rich and large parts of the US population don’t want to conceive Latin America is part of the west. They don’t want to accept they belong to the same general civilization because latins are brown, are poor, comes from Spain and are not based on German...
One year ago, the idea of Bell headlining any race — let alone one of the most glamorous events on the indoor circuit — would have seemed laughable, mainly because most of the running world did not know Bell existed. “A lot has changed in this past year,” says Bell in an ...