The Spanish, the Dutch, the French, and the English all practiced mercantilism. A term meaning that the world's wealth was finite and that only one nation could grow rich if another one failed. A nation had to extract more gold from a foreign land and export as little as possible to other na...

In the Elizabethan age the Spanish Armada controlled the seas with an iron fist. The Armada was extremely rich and incredibly powerful. Throughout all of the years Spain's Armada won countless battles, most of the battles were with the country of France (Easton 221). But France wasn't t...

The liberalization of telecommunications in Spain has resulted in new undertakings in the telecommunications market which need the authorization of the owner of the land to establish their network, for example, buried cables, antennas on the top of the buildings. When there is no agreement betwee...

The Spanish ArmadaThe Spanish Armada was a fleet of armed ships that attempted to invade England in the year of 1588. "This Spanish Fleet had at one time been called the Invincible Armada, supposedly because the Spaniards thought it could not be defeated" (World book Multimedia Encyclopedia). The ...

On November 8, 1519 Hernan Cortez landed in the great city of Mexico accompanied by six hundred Spaniards and a great amount of native allies. Cortez's arrival in Mexico City was welcomed by the friendly Aztec people, who mistakenly believed that Cortez was one of their gods, Quetzalcoa...

The French and Spanish responded differently to the culture and economy of the Native Americans. Even though both countries traveled to the New World for riches, their ways of obtaining the riches could not have been more different. The Spanish decided to conquer and enslave the Indians. The French ...

During this era there was much development in the world of slavery. It first started when the Portugese started importing slaves from Africa. The Africans were treated as slaves mainly because of their skin color. England was the first country to bring slavery over to North America. It was a ...

The Spanish-American War- 1898 The event and country under scrutiny is the United States of America and the 1898 Spanish American War. The concepts relevant to the Event and country chosen are Militarism, Imperialism and traditional diplomacy/war. To explain, Militarism is the desire to use th...

Jesse Rodriguez Chile was once sparsely populated mainly by Araucanian Amerindians. In the early 15th century Chile came under the strong influence of the Incas. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Chile they tried to over take the Amerindians. The Amerindians of course resisted with force. Wh...

Spanish Plan for Colonization When the Spanish decided that they were going to colonize various parts of Texas they did not realize the task they had before them. The Spanish's main goal was to convert the Indians into Christians or Spaniards. They decided to build missions to teach the...

The purpose of this paper is to prove that although both the English and the Spanish saw the natives as uncivilized and vulnerable savages; ultimately, the English, more so than the Spanish, took advantage of these characteristics to lead to bad relations with the Native Americans. Whereas the Span...

A number of factors contributed to the U.S. decision to go to war against Spain. Since the early years of the 19th century, many Americans had watched with sympathy the series of revolutions that ended Spanish authority throughout South America, Central America, and Mexico. Many people in the Uni...

The Spanish American WarThe Spanish American War of 1898 was a turning point for United States foreign policy because it established us as a world power by becoming a Imperialistic nation. Although the United States had been debating about Imperialism for a period of time and had many rationales f...

Spanish Influenza Epidemic Influenza is and acute infectious and Contagious disease sometimes becoming Pandemic. It is characterized by an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract. Epidemics of this disease have been recorded as early as 1510. The Influenza pandemic of 1...

A bloodshed, reckless, and frightening, the Spanish inquisition became a threat to anyone who did not follow the beliefs of the catholic churches. It was almost destined to happen, after the way Spain came to life. The nation-state was born out of religious struggles between many different belief sy...

Bartoleme de Las Casas gives an account of the effects of Spanish subjugation of the mainland and islands that comprise the Indies in the forty-nine years that Spanish settlers arrived in Hispaniola. He could have called his account "How to Depopulate in Less than 50 Years." He de...

"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" It is nearly impossible to discuss the poetic form of the dramatic monologue and not associate it with Robert Browning. Robert Browning is considered by many the creator and master of the dramatic monologue. It is believed that modern poetry has had ...

Two of the biggest and greatest civilizations in the Americas were the Aztecs and the Incas. These two civilizations were both said to be conquered by the Spanish, but it was not just the Spanish who conquered them. They both also fell from a combination of a weak government, lack of technology, n...

Daniel Defoe's famous quote on death and taxes presents the assurance that there are only two inevitabilities in life. He did not take into account however, the complexities of the human mind. These complexities allow for individualism and distinct perspectives on innumerable subjects. This is ...

A monk becomes the brunt of vehement anger in Robert Browning's poem "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister." Using sarcastic remarks and cruel metaphors, the speaker directs his diatribe directly to Brother Lawrence, criticizing him for being impious, lustful, and greedy and comparing him to a swi...

Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus was born in 1451. He was born in Genoa, Italy. He was an italian-spanish navigator. He sailed west across the Atlantic, in search of a route to Asia. He became famous by making land fall, instead in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus in his youth years took up...

Cortes was a very cruel Spanish explorer. In 1519 he conquered central and southern Mexico. His military triumphs led to 300 years of Spanish conquest. He went out to find gold and land, when he got there he found gold and beautiful land. He took the Aztecs land and gold. Cortes was born to a n...

In 1532 the Spanish soldier and adventurer, Francisco Pizarro, conquered the Inca Empire, creating a catalyst for the creation of a new colonial society. Steve Stern discusses the manner in which the indigenous peoples of Huamanga met the challenge of European conquest in his piece entitled, \"Peru\...

Antoni Gaudi was a Spanish architect, born on 25th June 1852 in Reus. He attended secondary school in the Colegio de los Padres Escolapios also in Reus in 1863. Gaudi also attended preparatory courses in 1869 to enable him to study architecture at the Faculty of Natural Science at Barcelona Univer...

PABLO PICASSO "I have never painted anything but my time". A quote once said by one of the most famous painter of the 20th century. Picasso was a famous Spanish painter, and sculpter considered to be one of the most creative and best artist ever. He was unique as an inventor of forms, as a crea...