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...

In one of his speeches to his men, Cortez spoke of the great rewards that will come to them, his men, for their services. Without disguising it at all Cortez tells his men that they will be "the richest of all men who have crossed the seas," "engaging in a ... war which will brin...

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...

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...

At the beginning of the fifteenth century, the world was a quite small place for Europeans. While they knew about China and Southern Africa, their worldview was still focused on Europe and the Mediterranean. Within 200 years, Europe would be almost all over the world with settlement on various conti...

Spain is a country filled with diverse cultures and many exciting sights. These sights can be seen in the most rural part of the country or the most densely populated. Asturias is an autonomy located in the North West portion of Spain. Autonomies are self-governing bodies, which are comparable to...

Democracy In The ColoniesDemocracy existed in the colonies in the New World even at the very beginning. However some colonies were more democratic than others. The major ideas of democracy like freedom of religion, speech, free market and human rights came to the New World with the first colonists, ...

In Arts of the Contact Zone, Mary Louise Pratt discusses a conflict, which she has labeled the "contact zone". Pratt defines the contact zone loosely as the social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other. In 1613 Guama Poma, a native Andean of Incan descent, wrote a twelve-h...

Spain\'s political experience was one of the most interesting and extraordinary in the history of modern Europe. It encompassed Portugal, part of Italy, the Netherlands, and large parts of the New World. In the early years of the eighth and ninth centuries, Muslims controlled all of Spain with the e...

Territory is a major cause of wars and crises between countries. Throughout history people have been fighting over who owns what land. In this essay I will be going over just one of these conflicts involving territory. This essay will go over and explain the territorial disputes over Florida bet...

In this study, I shall follow the protagonists on their journey from innocent people to people filled with hatred. I shall be primarily concerned with the responses, challenges, opportunities and attitudes of the Amerindians, putting special notice on how they were annihilated by the Spanish. The s...

When Columbus's second voyage departed from Cadiz on September 25, 1493, there was little doubt that the seventeen ships and 1500 men were an intimidating sight. Throughout the letter from Michele da Cuneo to Hieronymo Annari, one of the main themes that we repeatedly see is the Europeans usin...

SIMON BOLIVAR HIS LIFETIME AND AFTERWARDS In studying Simon Bolivar it is found that he changed the history of the world by organizing and achieving the independence for much of Latin America and northern South America from Spanish rule during the late 1700s to the early 1800s, both during ...

Andorra is one of the most unique countries in the world. It only has 175 square miles to call its own, which is less than half the size of New York City. Andorra is located in a valley of the mountains between France and Spain. From it being located between the mountains in the valley Andorra has b...

Pio Baroja was born on the twenty-eighth of December in the year 1872 in the Basque Country (Rouco). At the age of fifteen, his family moved to Madrid because his father, Don Serafín, was transferred there when he had obtained a seat in the Geographic and Statistical Institute (Caro Raggio). Ma...

Imperialism and Its Motives Imperialism began to grow just before the turn of the twentieth century. During this time America's businesses were growing and need more markets. The United States was becoming a world power, and with that some people felt there came obligations. The Un...

The Indian population in the early 1800s were subjects of the ruling elite. At this point, the ruling elite consisted of Spaniards, which considered the Indians to be barbaric and did not consider them to be humans. In 1810, the Gente de razon category was established to identify people who were...

I agree with the statement that the growing acceptance of ideas and attitudes associated with modernization and Europeanizism that essentially caused the movement toward Spanish American Independence, but disagree that, no other factors were involved. There was a huge und...

Francisco Franco Francisco Franco was born in El Ferrol in Galicia in 1892. He was going to join the navy, but instead he joined the army. In 1907 he joined the Infantry Academy in Toledo and graduated when he was 17. In 1912 he volunteered to be in colonial campaigns and was sent to the Spanis...

Christopher Columbus, son of Dominico Columbo and Suzanna Fontanarosa, passed away November 26, 1506. He left behind two sons, Fernando and Diego Columbus, and his wife, Felipa Peristrello e Moniz. Columbus was well known as a fearless explorer, a loyal ambassador to the Spanish crown, a tireless...

In Mary Louise Pratt's "Arts of the Contact Zone", she discusses the association of a less powerful civilization, the Andean's, and a powerful, dominant civilization, the Spanish. The Spaniards' lack of knowledge of the Andean civilization prevented them from realizing their true culture and made t...

"Our trade has suffered, the capital invested by our citizens in Cuba has been largely lost, and the temper and forbearance of our people have been so sorely tried as to beget a perilous unrest among our own citizens, which has inevitably found its expression from time to time in the National Legisl...

There are several reasons why Latin American movements for independence did not fulfill the high expectations of their protagonists. First of all, it is important to look at why the Latin Americans craved independence and indeed there were many causes for this. These causes included the French Rev...

Why was the first Mexican Revolution successful? Many factors made the first Mexican revolution successful. Revolutions in other countries, discontent people from all classes, and passionate revolutionaries were among the factors that led to a successful revolution. King Charles III took th...