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    move made by the Spaniards. It was unchallenging for the Aztec soldiers to occupy the smaller Spanish forces without the help of the native tribes. By the time Tenochtitlan was beleaguered‚ 300‚000 Aztec soldiers were overreached and the Spanish entered the mainland of Mexico with 600 men‚ 17 horses and 10 cannons. But the real question is that why did Tlaxcalan choose to make alliance with the Spanish and not the Indians? Tlaxcalan was a federation which consisted of 200 towns that had been struggling

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    disease and the spread of Catholicism gradually asserted Spanish dominion over the indigenous population in America‚ who nonetheless survived and endured both the conquest and 300 years of colonial rule. Due to Spanish pestilence and wholesale slaughter the Native American population was decimated. Committed by Royal decree‚ Spanish conquistadors converted their New World indigenous subjects to Catholicism. Once Native Americans were scattered Spanish conquistadors subdued and exploited them.  Beginning

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    Looking through the eyes of the aztecs The Spanish were more advanced in terms of weapons which contributed to the success of the Spanish conquest on the Aztec Empire in the late 1500s. The trust the Aztecs gave to the Spanish conquistadors‚ the diseases brought to the Aztecs and understanding of Aztec culture also led to the Spanish conquistadors to a successful conquest. When Bernal Castillo and Cortes‚ along with their soldiers‚ first arrived to Mexico‚ they were greeted by Moctezuma . Moctezuma

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    Advantages the Spanish had over the Incas The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire is one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. This operation‚ although carried out by Spanish conquistadors and their native allies‚ took decades of fighting to subdue‚ one of the mightiest empires in the Americas. One may ask‚ if the Incas were so powerful‚ how could they possibly have fallen to the authority of the Spaniards? Did they not have a strong enough army? Were there

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    The Gothic Style spread rapidly among other countries‚ and Spain‚ was not an exception. During the Romanesque period‚ Spanish artists adopted the French style of building and decorating in order to differ and stand out from the Muslims‚ with whom they shared the Iberian peninsula. During the thirteenth century‚ the identification of French style with Christian conquest encouraged the appearance of the Gothic style in Spain. The Cathedral of Santa Maria in León‚ also known as León Cathedral‚ was

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    Afghanistan Opium Production October 1347‚ the Europeans were greeted with the black plague which wiped out about one third of the whole population in Europe nearly 20 million people. (History) Far before that in about 3400 B.C. the cultivation of the new age plague was being planted by the Mesopotamians which is known today as Opium. Present day‚ Afghanistan controls nearly 90% of all opium growth and distribution which is a $65 billion market. (Sites) Opium is a dried condescended form of poppy

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    Dear Family‚ My journey began. Windrush started to move away from the beach and after a short amount of time‚ my home was just a tiny black dot on the horizon. Two months ago I arrived in the UK and the opportunity until now had to write you a letter. On 22th of June we arrived by ship at the UK and I didn’t know what to expect. I thought in England the opportunity for jobs in this country is better than back home and it is true but first it was very hard form me to find work. I had to learn new

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    "Prior to the Spanish colonization of the Philippines in 1565‚ there are no written records of the islands that make up the modern day Philippines."3 In the year 1565‚ Miguel López de Legazpi‚ the Conquistador travelled from Spain and founded the first Spanish settlement in the country‚ firstly on the island of Cebú. They occupied the kingdoms of Tondo and Manila‚ establishing it as the capital of the Spanish East Indies. "The Philippines were originally named after King Philip II of Spain- Las Islas

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    Omar Alfaro Reyes ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES TO LEARN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Why learning English as a second language? Nowadays learning another language is important because it is the most common language in the world‚ almost 60% people in the world use English regularly. Sometimes people think that learning English is difficult because most of the students can have different difficulties and problems in learning another language for example they make mistakes in their pronunciations

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    The Battle of the Spanish Armada The great naval battle between Spain and England in 1588- one of the most important battles in the history of the world- is known as the Battle of the Invincible Armada. But in a sense‚ this is a misnomer. An invincible armada is one that cannot be defeated‚ yet the mighty fleet of warships that Spain sent to invade England‚ was defeated so badly that Spain could never again rule the oceans. How was it possible that this armada‚ which had awed all of Europe with

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