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| | Spanish Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In 1565, the Spanish defeated an Ottoman landing on the strategic island of Malta, defended by the Knights of St. John. | | | In 1630, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, one of history's most noted commanders, landed in Germany and relieved the port of Stralsund that was the last stronghold on the continent held by German forces belligerent to the Emperor. | | | In 1911, Morocco was divided between the French and Spanish. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Spanish Empire |
| | Spanish imperialism in Africa was concentrated in two principal areas: Morocco and the Gulf of Guinea. | | | Magellan was killed on the neighbouring island of Mactan by the chieftain Lapu-Lapu, but Spain claimed ownership of the islands and dispatched more exploring expeditions, before embarking in 1565 upon systematic colonization; first of Cebu and subsequently of the larger island Luzon, where the capital, Manila, was established in 1571. | | | A major rebellion of the Berber Rif tribe against Spanish rule was put down in the 1920s only with French assistance, but the Franco-Moroccan agreement of 1956 that recognized the independence of Morocco left Spain no option but to give up Spanish Morocco. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Printer-friendly - Spanish Empire |
| | They even filed grievances to the Spanish monarchy against Columbus in his role as administrator of the new lands. | | | Many explorers also felt it was their moral responsibility to convert people to Christianity. | | | Yet, as the 19th century progressed, these island territories were increasingly drawn into the economic orbit of the neighboring United States. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/text_761595536___3/Spanish_Empire.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Spanish Empire |
| | They even filed grievances to the Spanish monarchy against Columbus in his role as administrator of the new lands. | | | Many explorers also felt it was their moral responsibility to convert people to Christianity. | | | At that time Europeans simply assumed that if representatives of Christian nations discovered previously unknown lands and peoples, they had the right and the responsibility to take charge of them. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761595536/Spanish_Empire.html
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| | Spain - Free Encyclopedia |
| | This was also the year in which she gave Christopher Columbus the money for his first trip across the Atlantic to the "New World". | | | Following the victory of his nationalist forces in 1939, General Francisco Franco ruled a nation exhausted politically and economically. | | | The discussion has been about "total shared sovereignty" over Gibraltar, subject to a constitutional referendum by Gibraltarians, who have largely expressed opposition to any form of cession to Spain. |
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| | Language and Empire |
| | Thus, spreading Christianity became one of the main objectives of the Spanish Empire, for without it, the monarchs could not justify their claim to the wealth and labor which uld be extracted from the new colonies. | | | Heath notes that "Resorting to the Inquisition to help purge the kingdom of Jewish and Arab influence, Isabella began a program of religious nationalization which later monarchs carried on toward identification of Catholicism with Castilianization." <31> The tradition was extended to the Americas. | | | The Arawak are not simply denied the opportunity to dispute the Spanish claim; they are not in the same universe of discourse. |
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| | The Spanish Netherlands |
| | The Allies insisted that Spain and its Empire should be split. | | | In 1492, Columbus landed in America, and within a generation Spain had conquered the once-mighty Inca and Mayan empires. | | | Driven off at the sea battle of Gravelines, the Armada failed. |
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http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/background/flanders.htm
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: SPANISH TEXAS |
| | For the enterprising St. Denis, the presence of Spaniards near Louisiana opened the door for the contraband trade that became a way of life on the Texas frontier. | | | By then La Salle, a victim of assassination, had been dead for two years. | | | Spaniards first approached Texas from the east by sea along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, |
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| | European Voyages of Exploration: Imperial Spain |
| | The results included the expulsion of Muslims from the peninsula and the expulsion of Jews from her kingdoms in order to created a homogeneous population of Christians. | | | Isabella was a devout Christian and this religious conviction motivated her fanatic campaign to expel the Moors and Jews from Iberian and spread Christianity to the rest of the world. | | | The real masters of the land were the bourgeoisie who dominated the kingdom's economic life. |
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| | Discovery: The Spanish Empire |
| | On the one hand, they believed that they were introducing Native Americans to Christianity and to the arts of civilization and some believed that Native Americans had a right to their lands and should not be economically or politically exploited. | | | The viceroy was advised by councils called audiencias ; these councils also served as the judicial branch of the colonial government. | | | The English claimed that they were more benign than the Spanish, who they depicted as monstrous and rapacious; the reality was that the English colonies of Trinidad and Jamaica were little better than death camps. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/REFORM/EMPIRE.HTM
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| | Spanish empire failed to conquer Southeast |
| | In 1663, Henry Hilton, an English navigator in the employ of planters from Barbados, sailed into the Port Royal region on the South Carolina coast. | | | Spanish soldiers regarded him as the exemplar of the Christian warrior. | | | The soldiers were “forced guests” who likely drew the ire of their Indian hosts in a number of ways, says Paul Hoffman, a historian at Louisiana State University. |
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| | Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Empire, 1402-1975 — www.greenwood.com |
| | "The armada of books greeting the quincentenary of Columbus's transatlantic voyage of discovery will almost certainly raise many questions about the globe-girdling empire that Spain acquired in Columbus's wake, questions that Olsen's dictionary is ideally suited to answer. | | | Appendix A: A Historical Chronology of the Spanish Empire | | | This volume attempts to do what no other does: cover Spain's entire empire, from start to finish, in its political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions. |
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| | Spanish Empire: Bibliography |
| | The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350-1750 | | | Empires and Entrepots: The Dutch, the Spanish Monarchy, and the Jews, 1585-1713 | | | This is a bibliography of materials of use for student projects for J. Owens's course THE SPANISH EMPIRE. |
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http://www.isu.edu/~owenjack/spemp/bib.html
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| | Spanish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Spanish is also pro-drop (allows the deletion of pronouns when pragmatically unnecessary) and verb-framed. | | | Spanish is one of the official languages of the United Nations and the European Union. | | | Ladino, which is essentially medieval Castilian and closer to modern Spanish than any other language, is spoken by many descendants of the Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in the 15th century. |
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| | History of THE SPANISH EMPIRE |
| | The priest solemnly begins explaining to Atahualpa the truth of the Christian religion (a requirement in the Spanish empire, when confronting pagan people, if there is a danger of bloodshed). | | | But there is still much support around the Inca capital, Cuzco, for his rival. | | | One is that the empire is in a state of turmoil caused by civil war between two brothers, sons of an Inca ruler who has died about five years previously. |
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| | SPANISH EMPIRE COINS IN GUAM- PART TWO |
| | Use of the first counterstamps (between 1828 and 1830) was politically rather than economically motivated. | | | Consequently, confusion resulted as there was no uniformity in the coinage being circulated. | | | Spanish officials issued an order to halt the counterstamping of foreign coins in 1837. |
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| | The Spanish Empire - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | Spain was the most powerfull nation in the world, Because the Spanish people where proud and brave like the conquistadors conquerd almost half of this planet, I dont know what happend to the pride and bravery. | | | That and the feared Spanish infantry units never landed for the English knew that would be the end of their kingdom. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?p=537411
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Spanish Empire |
| | Inca Empire, vast kingdom in the Andes Mountains of South America that was created by the Quechua, a Native American people, in the 15th century. | | | Spanish Empire, overseas territories in Africa, the Americas, and Asia historically subject to the sovereignty of Spain. | | | See all search results in Encarta Articles (126) |
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| | Spanish Empire |
| | In a war supported by Henry VIII of England, he captured François I of France at Pavia in 1525, obliging him to sign the Treaty of Madrid and to renounce his claims on northern Italy. | | | Charles V abdicated in 1556, dividing his dominions between his son Philip (King Philip II of Spain and Sicily), who inherited the political realm, and his younger brother Ferdinand (Ferdinand I), who became ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. | | | Upon the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon (Ferdinand V of Castile) in 1516, the Spanish crown was inherited by his grandson Charles. |
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| | Common-place: The Spanish Empire and the Seven Years' War |
| | British officials knew that no immediately foreseeable war would eliminate all of the Indian peoples in North America that were potentially hostile to British settlers; so some threats to the colonies would remain, regardless of the outcome of a war between Britain and France. | | | In 1711, motivated in part by the challenge of financing debts incurred during the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain had formed the South Sea Company for trade with the Spanish empire. | | | Anderson notes that during the Seven Years' War, British shipments of silver to Germany and America were so large that they created a severe specie shortage in Britain in early 1759. |
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| | The Spanish Empire: Historical Colossus and Modern Impact |
| | centuries remains a recent memory, we tend to regard that vast Anglo-Saxon dominion as the “empire on which the sun never sets” (until it did after WWII, of course…), as an especially expansive and unusual global imperium created by a rainy, modest-sized island country in northwestern Europe. | | | created a vast global empire of similar size, in spite of limitations in its native territory, natural resources, and population that were akin to those encountered by the British, French, and Dutch. | | | , especially, forged a remarkable global empire whose breadth and impact were astounding. |
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| | SPANISH EMPIRE COINS IN GUAM- PART TWO |
| | Each of these galleons brought additional personnel, primarily clergy and soldiers as well as individuals who were designated by Spain to rule and administer the far-flung colonies of Guam and the Philippines. | | | The Spanish and Spanish-American 8-reales coins were called "pieces of eight" because they were often divided into eight equal parts (called "bits") for small change. | | | Spanish ships continued the trade with merchants in the far east by crossing the Indian Ocean, |
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| | The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Empire. |
| | 1700: With the death of Charles II, the dinasty of the Habsburg comes to an end and the War of the Spanish Succession breaks out, in which France, England and Austria are involved. | | | 1556: Charles abdicates and enters the monastery of Yuste (where he dies two years later), dividing his dominions between his son Philip II and his younger brother Ferdinand I. Most of the Empire remains in the hands of the Spanish branch of the House of Austria. | | | 1519: Charles is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (June 28th), which involves Spain in endless wars; the monarch confronts the Ottoman Empire, takes Francois I of France prisoner at Pavia and tries to solve the serious problem of the Reformation. |
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| | The Spanish Empire |
| | The geographic, cultural, economic, administrative and military dimensions of the encounters and conflicts among the peoples of a major global empire from its medieval beginnings to its final collapse in the Napoleonic era. | | | This is the main page for the materials for the upper-division and graduate level course of J. Owens, THE SPANISH EMPIRE. | | | Thank you for any assistance you are able to offer. |
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| | The Spanish presence on the North American Continent extended from the East Coast to the Pacific as far North in the Pacific as Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island in what is now British Columbia. | | | New Spain grew as the savage semidesert north came slowly to be subdued and occupied by missionary friars, miners, ranchers, and military governments. | | | The other was Peru which covered all of Spanish South America except the coast of Venezuela. |
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| | Tomfolio.com: History: Empires and Civilizations, Spanish Empire |
| | The institutional history of the Spanish colonies from Columbus to Independence. | | | A true story of North America's first colony, based on the letters, journals and accounts of the Spanish colonial expedition of 1559-1561 at Ochuse, La Florida. | | | A fascinating journey through three hundred years of the Spanish vice-regal age, beginning with the early sixteenth century, 275 pages, illustrations, maps, a nice clean copy, dust jacket in a protective cover. |
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| | Student Project: HIST 360/560, The Spanish Empire |
| | For this course, there are strict standards, explained in the three pages linked to the next paragraph, for essay content and form, for the style of bibliography entries and notes, and for the citation of any words or ideas that are not your own. | | | This page explains the student research project for J. Owens's fall 2002 upper-division and graduate level course The Spanish Empire. | | | Questions and comments may be sent to me at my e-mail address (owenjack@isu.edu), or if you prefer, you may send me a message now by selecting this button: Mail Now. |
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| | Spectator, The: RIVERS OF GOLD: THE RISE OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE |
| | Tarnished heroes, but still heroic RIVERS OF GOLD: THE RISE OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE by Hugh Thomas Weidenfeld, £25, pp. | | | Spectator, The: RIVERS OF GOLD: THE RISE OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE | | | RIVERS OF GOLD: THE RISE OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE |
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