The history of Spain is one of the most fascinating in the world and the Spanish history and culture has helped to shape the modern world into what it is today. Although Spain is a relatively small territory located in southwestern Europe‚ the history of Spain is of grandeur and is strikingly different from that of the rest of the continent. The timeline of Spanish history tells the story of a land that has been sought after by many civilizations. The first to appear were the Iberians‚ a Libyan people
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1. In what way will the culture of Spain be different from that of the United States? In answering this question‚ refer to Figures 4–5‚ 4–6‚ and 4–7. In answering this question I will use the dimensions that Geert Hofstede identified to attempt to provide a composite picture of the cultures. The four dimensions Geert Hofstede examined were power distance‚ uncertainty avoidance‚ individualism and masculinity
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Exploration and the New World From Richard Bulliet et al.‚ The Earth and Its Peoples‚ v. 2‚ 5th edn (Wadsworth/Cengage‚ 2012)‚ p. 382 The harsh waters of the Atlantic Ocean kept the Americas isolated from the rest of the world for many years. A few sailing attempts were made were made in Atlantic but none were successful‚ except for the Vikings who first found North America in 986 and Genoese and Portuguese explorers who discovered the islands of Madeira‚ the Azores
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Establishing the Colonies Name _____ Motives for settling in the New World: Spread Christianity Find a short cut to Asia Better job opportunities Roanoke Island With the permission of Queen Elizabeth‚ Sir Walter Raleigh raised money to establish a colony‚ and in 1585 a small group of men sailed for the Americas. What did Raleigh find when he returned to the Lost Colony of Roanoke in 1589? The people had vanished and they found the word‚ “Croatian” carved in a tree. Jamestown What
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Chapter 1 – New World Beginnings‚ 33‚00B.C – A.D. 1769 New World Beginnings – the human history of the new world began during the ice-age when‚ because of lower sea levels‚ Asiatic tribes were able to cross the Bering Strait and populate the Americas. Eventually‚ these peoples migrated and dispersed to form tribes and some advanced civilizations on almost every corner of these two continents. Bering Strait – a land bridge connecting modern-day Alaska and Russia. During the Ice Age‚ low ocean
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Although people from England settled in the Chesapeake and New England area‚ the regions evolved into two distinct societies due to their differences in religion‚ politics‚ and especially‚ economies by 1700. The religion of the Chesapeake and New England areas differed. Because New Englanders came to escape religious persecution‚ one would think that it would become a land of complete tolerance. This was not the case‚ though. The New Englanders were very religious-based‚ and considered themselves
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There were many political and technological changes that prompted the world explorations and discovery of the new world. The Portuguese were the main contributors to the technological changes that lead to the discovery of the new world. However‚ the change of the political structure of Spain ultimately lead to the discovery. There were many technological changes that the Portuguese contributed. First of all they observed the way the Arab vessels were designed and then improved on them to make
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Philip’s War Hist. 146 King Philip ’s War King Philip ’s War‚ it was one of the first and bloodiest conflicts between the colonist of New England and the Native Americans‚ primarily the Wampanoag Indian tribe. There were massive casualties on each side‚ all of which were caused by fighting and disease. King Philip ’s War‚ had began out of almost forty years of tension between local native tribes of Massachusetts and puritan colonists of Massachusetts. Each side felt as if they had no choice
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New England vs. Chesapeake While both the people of the New England region and of the Chesapeake region descended from the same English origin‚ by 1700 both regions had traveled in two diverse directions. Since both of these groups were beset with issues that were unique to their regions and due to their exposure to different circumstances‚ each was forced to rethink and reconstruct their societies. As a result‚ the differences in the motivation‚ geography‚ and government in the New England and
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The thirteen colonies that joined together to become the United States of America were but a part of the first British Empire. They were the product of a broad and dramatic expansion of England that began with the establishment of “plantations” in Ireland during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and reached a peak with the conquest of Canada and the extension of British influence over India during the 1760s. In the New World alone at the time of the American Revolution Britain had close to two dozen
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