including in the Philippines where tobacco spread across the archipelago, even to regions outside of colonial control, “Where neither Spanish soldiers nor missionaries could make headway, tobacco gained entry” (in de Jesus1998
“I know not why, unless because he was a Portuguese, and they Spaniards.” After a rough voyage across the Atlantic to Brazil, in which the fleet was battered by storms, the tensions increased when an officer on the Victoria, Antonio Salamón, was tried and executed by strangulation in ...
Despite regional variations in Spanish and its spread to three continents outside Europe—North America, South America, Africa (it's official in Equatorial Guinea), and Asia (thousands of Spanish words are part of Filipino, the national language of the Philippines)—Spanish remains remarkably unifor...