The Spanish are credited for conquering some of the most notable civilizations of the Americas, especially the Aztec and Inca empires. ... After few revolts, the Peru fail to dislodge the Spanish from Peru, but it was civil war between the Spanish conquistadores that would prove to be a setback as fellow conquistador Almagro is defeated and executed when he leads an attack on Pizarro. ... But it was these men that would bring home gargantuan wins for Spain and the Spanish Empire. 2) Explain and compare the administration of the Spanish Americas and the Portuguese America (Brazil). ... The Spa...

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Since the country gained its independence from Spain, it has gone from being a kingdom run by the Spanish elite, a military dictatorship, and finally a constitutional democratic republic. Guatemala's independence wasn't as bloody as many of the other Spanish colonies' struggle towards it, since there was no actual war with Spain. ... "A Central American convention declared Central America independent on July 1, 1823, and formed the United Provinces of Central America, a federation that included Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua."3 A concept si...

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(Cortés) While the motivations of the Spanish for colonizing the Americas were different than the English, it is clear to see that Spain and England had the greatest impact and success in their colonization efforts. The bearing of Spanish colonization is characterized mostly by the efforts of converting Native Americans into Christians and the impact, although not positive, of spreading disease to the people of the Americas. ... The negative impact that the Spanish had during their colonization of the Americas was disease. ... Nonetheless, the Spanish missionaries of Father Junipero...

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"Total wars" would have catalyzed development of strong states, but given the pre-existing limitations of Latin American states, they could not wage such wars, focusing instead on limited wars directed largely at internal foes-civil wars, if you will-that provided few of the state-building benefits of total wars. ... That is to say, in securing their freedom from their colonial master-Spain--these nations did not have to wage the sort of all-or-nothing, transformative, "war for your very existence" conflict that would have galvanized all social classes in support of their...

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In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain in search of a sea route to Asia. ... Spanish settlers arrived in North America in the early sixteenth century. ... None of the tribes were allowed to enter the war on their own. ... It also fought on British side in the war against France, which lasted from 1754 to 1763. ... After the war concluded in 1783, the United Stated claimed victory over Britain, and despite some Native Americans participating on the side of the U.S., it also claimed the victory over Native Americans. ...

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However, gradually assumptions about The Tempest's relations with American colonization accumulated and "American school" of Tempest interpretation began to emerge. ... By doing so he declared that Caliban was the representation of "the aboriginal American". ... Caliban was no longer just an American Indian, he also became the reflections of the African slave and the European wild man; or the blend if several American Indian types. ... Prospero, they argued, urged his disciples to seek art, beauty, virtue and truth, warning them against materialism and utilitarianism: he identified those ...

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Blaine. " "That rich island, the key to the Gulf Of Mexico, and the field to our most extended trade in the Western Hemisphere, is, though in the hands of Spain, a part of the American Commercial system. If ever ceasing to be Spanish, Cuba must necessarily become American and not fall under any other European domination" " (Appel, Appel 72). ... There was no necessity for the U.S. to intervene in another country's civil wars. ... s presence in Latin America. ... Hugo Chavez's friendship with (and discounted oil sales to) Fidel Castro, his criticism of the U.S. war on terrorism, his c...

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Before 1492, the Irish, Spanish, and Swiss didn't eat the same things they eat now. ... It didn't take long after the horse was introduced to the New World by Spanish conquistadors for the Indian society to appreciate the strange beast and value the things it could do. ... European's explored and exploited the Americas. ... The European disease was the ultimate conqueror of America more than any war. ... Decades after Europe discovered America, Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans began to interact. ...

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Recent studies believe this is beneficial due to the rapidly growing numbers of the Spanish speaking population in America. ... The acknowledgment of Latinos being a major consumer in America has shown Americans that minorities will not be ignored any longer. ... After all "war and hunger and ignorance and despair have no religious barrier" (366, Sinopoli) and they affect all people in the same manner no matter what religion a person is. ... The America that he describes is one that keeps matters of church and state completely separate. ... Someday there will be no such thing as a Catholic v...

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