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    “Revolts and independence movements…spread across the continent between 1808 and 1830. The high point of these movements was 1821‚ when the original core colonies of New Spain and Peru declared independence from Spain” (page 157). With independence came political parties- liberal and conservative dominated over all else. Liberals were typically educated merchants who wanted a modest federal government‚ expanded suffrage‚ a weak church‚ and free

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    organizational profile‚ then‚ it will follow with an outline of Mango’s history and finally‚ it will also describe Mango’s design and manufacturing process. Mango is a clothing manufacturing company which comes from Spain with headquarter located in Barcelona‚ Spain. Mango’s products include women’s and men’s clothing and accessories. Mango is a privately owned company with 8600 employees throughout the world‚ which had 1700 stores in 100 countries that cover Europe‚ Australia‚ North America

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    Under this new law signed by King Charles the V of Spain‚ encomiendas were no longer considered a hereditary grant‚ the owners now had to set their Indian serfs free after a single generation. In order to enforce this new laws‚ De las Casas was appointed bishop of Chiapas‚ and together with 44 Dominicans

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    The Spanish conquistadors’ motives greatly affected the people living in the new world. These motives influenced the Native Americans in all different ways some ways better or bigger than others. Three of the biggest motives that effected the Native Americans were gold‚ Christianity‚ and glory. The first Spanish conquistadors’ motive that greatly affected the people living in the new world was the search for gold. You can see that this was a big motive by looking in documents two and three. In

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    Americas‚ the local natives saw something that they have never witnessed before: Large‚ majestic beasts ridden by men. These other-worldly creatures were nothing more than horses. The horses that seemed so exotic to the Incas had already been used in Spain for 4‚000 years. In an age before motorized transport‚ they allowed people to be mobile‚ and control their land. Harnessed to a plough‚ a horse or an ox could transform the productivity of farmland. European farmers were able to grow more food to feed

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    The Queen of Spain commissioned Christopher Columbus to lead an expedition westward to reach Asia‚ and he instead stumbled upon the most successful failure in history‚ The Americas. He reached the islands of the Bahamas‚ and thinking that he was indeed in the Indies‚ he named the inhabitants Indians. Ironically‚ after making the greatest discovery of the past millennium‚ his tombstone marked him as a failure‚ due to the lack of the Northwest Passage. Once the queen of Spain realized the goldmine

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    While the Spanish settlement and the British settlement of the Americas shared some similar characteristics‚ they were also substantially different and carried out in entirely dissimilar manners. They might have had common goals in mind for themselves but these countries took entirely different routes in settling the Americas because of different motivating incentives that pushed their colonization of the New World. The Spanish were settling at first to mine for gold‚ and were successful at it

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    RIZAL TOPICS Rizal Become a Mason Financial Worries Rizal’s Salute to Luna & Hidalgo Studies Completed in Spain RIZAL BECOME A MASON MASONRY  isang pandaigdig na kapatiran ng mga taong may malayang kaisipan.  Sa buong kasaysayan‚ malalim ang hidwaan ng simbahan at mga Mason sa buong mundo. Ramdam ito hanggang sa Pilipinas dahil sa paniniwala ng simbahan na  erehe   ang mga Mason at mariin nilang ipinagbabawal ang pagsapi ng isang katoliko sa kapatiran.  Ngunit para sa kapatiran‚ hindi

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    Christopher Columbus was an Italian born navigator who sailed in the service of Spain. He is commonly described as the discoverer of the New World America. Although Columbus was in search of a westward route to Asia by sea‚ the discoveries he did make were more important and valuable than the route he failed to find. It is certain‚ however‚ that Columbus was not the first European to cross the Atlantic. Documentary evidence supports claims that the Vikings reached the New World about A.D. 1000. And

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    Philip Iv at Fraga 1644

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    his military uniform holding his sword and baton of command. It can now be located in The Frick Collection in New York. Philip IV ascended to the throne in 1621 and reigned in Spain until his death in 1665. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the arts‚ including such artists as Diego Velázquez‚ and his rule over Spain during the challenging period of the Thirty Years ’ War. In order to gain back the Spanish territory lost to the French and Philip’s prestige and honour he personally led a campaign

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