However, it can also be implied that long before the Moorish invasion in 711, Visigothic Spain (descendants of Germanic tribes that had settled in the Iberian Peninsula after the Roman defeat and withdrawal) had its own style of music, with a heavy influence from Byzantium (later Istanbul, Turkey). ... The music of flamenco usually consists of guitar playing (toque), hand-clapping (palmas) and snapping (pitos), and often is combined with traditional dancing (baile). ...

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Nevertheless, the term Renaissance remains a widely recognized label for the multifaceted period between the heyday of medieval universalism, as embodied in the Papacy and Holy Roman Empire, and the convulsions and sweeping transformations of the 17th century. ... This expansion in turn played a major role in the many other transformations?'...

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Later on in the year sixteen hundred and fifteen Cervantes published Part II of Don Quixote as well as Eight Plays and Eight Interludes. ... The wars like the Thirty Years War that pitted England, which was mainly Protestant against Spain, which was mainly, Roman Catholic, could also very well be a determining factor in the difference between these two writers who were from England and Spain. ... Diction plays a key role in all of the works. ...

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Hispanic on the other hand developed when the Romans invaded the Iberian Peninsula and named present day España, Hispania. ... It is negative when it is linked to the mass media and stereotypical thinking comes into play and "the average person associates them with drug abuse, low income, high incidence of AIDS, high fertility, school dropouts, criminal behavior, etc.""4 On the positive side labeling is linked to a kind of cultural pride, but becomes problematic to find common cultural denomiators beyond language. ...

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