No, Columbus did not discover a new country that no one knew about because native habitants were already settled in the Indies and Americas. ... The Indian in the more North American region lived very scattered and secluded, there were many different languages and different customs. ... The Spanish empire reached from Mexico throughout the southwest of North America all the way to the Caribbean. ... When the much smaller tribes of the North American area were more peaceful and to themselves mostly. ... "An organism at war with itself is doomed....

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The Spanish had colonies in South America ( Mexico) and they supplied the Hapsburg Empire with gold and silver. ... To counter this move, Spain, England and Austria declared open war against France. ... Therefore, this alarmed England, France and the German Protestants who all declared war on Spain. Spain was heavily dependent on supplies coming from its lucrative colonies in South America and elsewhere. ... The wealth acquired helped the Dutch-English war effort but it also made Spain poorer. ...

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The defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) and the loss of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (completed by 1648) mark the end of Spain's greatness. ... Spain slipped in power. ... Four Major Wars of Louis XIV were the War of Devolution 1667-1668 against Spanish Netherlands, Second Dutch War 1672- 1678 against Dutch, War of the League of Augsburg 1688-1697 and War of the Spanish Succession 1702-1713 These wars were followed by four treaties of Utrecht. ... Year 1776 saw the American Declaration of Independence and in 1789 the Estates General meets in Paris beginning the French Revolu...

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In the Americas alone, 182 are endangered by the end of the century. ... Wars, earthquakes, tsunamis and such kinds of natural catastrophes can shift the balance between languages. ... An example of a language in Europe which is demanding more freedom within its territory is Catalan, in Spain. ... Catalan is spoken in Andorra, the Spanish region of Catalonia and other parts of eastern Spain, the Balearic Islands, and the regions of Sardinia in Italy and Rousillon in France. ... This decrease was due to two world wars, television, and the increasing choice of Wales as a place for retirement for...

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To find asylum, the refugees migrated into European countries, such as Turkey, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Middle Eastern countries like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and many countries around the world. ... On the other hand, there has been only over 2,300 Syrian refugees allowing into America since the Syrian Civil War began. ... America has the responsibility in the Syrian civil war. America first has got involved in the Syrian war since it supplied for the Free Syrian Army whose goal is to take down the Syrian government. ... At this point, America makes the war in Syrian worse. ...

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In return, each lord promised to supply the monarch with knights and arms in times of war. ... From France, feudalism spread to the major European countries including Spain, Italy, Scandinavia, Germany England, and the Slavic countries.ii Ultimately, people, land, and relationships were the most basic ingredients of feudalism. ... These types of hierarchical ceremonies can still be seen in many European monarchies today, the Catholic Church and even academia in America. ... These relationships of loyalty often became so disheveled that a lesser lord or knight could find himself owing loyalty ...

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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 low mortgage interest rates have dramatically increased housing affordability for many Americans creating a concomitant increase in demand. ... Over the past five years, real house prices have increased at average annual rates of 8%-12% in Australia, UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain. ... The Economist concludes that house prices continued to climb despite a stock market crash, global economic slowdown and the Iraq war, and have fueled the belief that they can only keep rising. ... The largest falls are recorded in Ireland and Spain, the countries with the highest rises in house pr...

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One of the main differences between the highly developed society, such as Spain, and the New Guinea's tribes are the types of crops they farm and the livestock they feed. ... Meanwhile the America continent is longer, the length of America continent from north to south is around 8,000 miles. ... The Incas had no advantages over weapons during the war. ... Since Smallpox and Black Death seemed never to have appeared on the America continent, Diamond stated that some of the Incas were infected by those new germs and virus before the wars. ...

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The Spanish, Portuguese, French, British and Japanese utilized their military force and the created innovation to extend their domains and searching for more regions. ... British and French officials became more concerned with urban development during and after the war, especially in efforts to create a stable and docile urban workforce. ... Some of the major colonizers known to date are France, Denmark, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom (LCN). ...

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When France lost the Seven Years War she lost her colonies to England and Spain forcing her to lose a substantial amount of money. ... King Louis XVI spent 1,500,000,000 Livre in helping the American colonists in the American Revolution. ...

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Similarities can be seen with the evolution of Latin American countries into military rule through the caudillos following independence from Spain. ... Arguably though, the development of some military personnel and infrastructure for colonial benefit(also a pool of manpower for extraterritorial wars, such as the French in IndoChina) provided a potent enough springboard for the military to play a role in post-independence affairs. ...

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As Erica Benner (2013) mentions in Nationalism: Intellectual Origins, a German reaction to the revolutions in America and France, which "claimed to found new national forms of legitimacy on universal, republican principles" (Benner 2013, p. 45), which was when the confederation of German states in 1800, or the Holy Roman Empire, were collapsing due to the pressure of the revolutionary wars. ... Considering revolutions were taking place throughout Europe, it accounted for further tensions – Already the revolutions in Spain, the Two Sicilies and Greece in 1820-21, and later in the 1830&#...

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