As the acquisition of the Canary Islands was just being finalized, Ferdinand and Isabella were confident the lessons they had learned in the Reconquest and especially off the coast of Africa would carry them to an even swifter and more profitable victory in future voyages. The conquest of the Canary Islands and their colonization was not done with a Spanish royal army, but rather by means of the throne offering citizens land grants and fiscal exemptions on land they would conquer. ... This attitude found much success in Spanish adventures throughout the Canary Islands. ... Who has gold has ...

• Word Count: 1786
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In New Zealand some impacts of climate change are higher temperatures over the whole of New Zealand but more in the North Island than the South, rising sea levels from the melting of large ice masses around the world, more frequent extreme weather events such as droughts and floods and a change in rainfall patterns - higher rainfall in the west and less in the east. ... National The Tasman Glacier is the largest of several glaciers which run south and east towards the Mackenzie Basin from the Southern Alps in the South Island of New Zealand . ... Local Franz Josef glacier is located on the We...

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The island of Sri Lanka was colonised by Portugal from 1505-1658. ... There was also a sizeable minority of Arabic traders in the island who adhered to Islam. ... These aforementioned Portuguese missionaries in Sri Lanka came from four different Catholic orders: Franciscan, Jesuit, Augustinian and Dominican. (2) However, the Portuguese did not hesitate to use force during their colonial inquest of the island and even if their use of religion appeared to be far more benevolent at the outset, it certainly was not the case. ... This is the chief reason for losing my Kingdom, my treasures, the Qu...

• Word Count: 1990
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The determination and slave labour which the Warden enforces, in her eagerness to find the treasure', typifies greed and it's consumption of her character. ... The reader is also persuaded to believe in fate, believing that if Stanley had not been hit' by the trainers he would never have met Zero nor have found his great- great grandfather's treasure. ...

• Word Count: 1943
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The determination and slave labour which the Warden enforces, in her eagerness to find the treasure', typifies greed and it's consumption of her character. ... The reader is also persuaded to believe in fate, believing that if Stanley had not been hit' by the trainers he would never have met Zero nor have found his great- great grandfather's treasure. ...

• Word Count: 1946
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Unlike Shakespeare's Caliban, Who appreciates the island's natural treasures and its wondrous music, Dryden and Davenant's Caliban is a completely a monster, insensitive to everything. ... His bestiality makes him an oppressor on the island until Prospero comes, who brings light, knowledge and virtue here and tries to educate this ungrateful monster to the civilized. ... In 1818, Hazlitt published The Yellow Dwarf, in which he firstly raised the view that it was Caliban, not Prospero, was the legitimate ruler of the island. ... Sidney Lee, the famous scholar knighted for hi...

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Between the Greek mainland and the island of Crete, 220 islands dot the Aegean Sea, forming a circle around the island of Delos. ... All known graves were emptied so that the island might be purified and those about to give birth or die were hurriedly conveyed from within its borders. ... When the Greeks captured the camp of the Persians at Marathon in 494 BC, and found many riches and treasures in their tents, Aristides, a Spartan was left in charge of the Delian League Treasury. ...

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Caesar's in his opinion did nothing but discovering the land/ island and therefore Caesar was viewed by him as a great General nothing more, "But he [Julius Caesar] may fairly be said to have merely drawn attention to the island: it was not his to bequeath " (Tacitus, Agricola Ch. 13). ... (Hunt, 263) indicates that the Byzantine emperors spent a great amount of money on buildings such as artistic treasure, libraries, and new capitol that he filled with museums. ...

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This carelessness stands in stark contrast to the way he so arrogantly discusses his imports, yet Daisy takes great pleasure in watching the things that Gatsby treasures so dearly lay in a heap. ... Freud comments on the rebellious nature of Icarus and his relationship with his father Daedalus, who had crafted the infamous wings for himself and his son to escape the island of Minos. ...

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When he is rejected by her, due to his poverty, he reinvents himself and becomes utterly obsessed with the material aspects of life, which he knows she treasures. ... As Nick Carraway narrates, "I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors" eyes...a fresh, green breast of the new world. ...

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This expedition later encouraged the development of Fort Nassau on "Castle Island", which became the focal point for the North American fur trade in the Northeast (Duncan Crary Communications, 2009). ...

• Word Count: 1870
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate