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...

In what ways did American silver facilitate the growth of world trade?The discovery of American silver and its subsequent influx into Europe and Asia had a significant impact on the growth of world trade, to the extent that it is accurate to say that the growth in trade at this time laid the foundat...

Re-examining the Decline of Spain Richard Kagan writes in his insightful article, "Prescott's Paradigm" that Spanish history is often overshadowed by historians' fixation on the "decline" of Spain. While some of the prejudice could originally be ascribed to anti-Catho...

OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America looks at the political, economic and social history of Latin America. Mr. Galeano argues that the More Developed Countries played a main role in the "Lesser Developed Country" status Latin America has been...

" The great dimensions among human kind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural . Nation Sates will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principle conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations." (Huntington, S, 1993)...

The Catholic ReformationIINTRODUCTION Counter-Reformation, movement within the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th and 17th centuries that sought to revitalize the Church and to oppose Protestantism. Some historians object to the term as implying only the negative elements in the movement, and they ...

Table of ContentsI. Introduction1III. A Definition of Social Movement3IV. The Background of the Basque Movement4V. The Origins of ETA5VI. ETA: From Social Movement to Violence6VII. The Government response to ETA violence7VIII. Conclusion9I. IntroductionTerrorism is not a new phenomenon. The roots of...