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    Spanish Cuisine

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    Spanish Cuisine The earliest settlers of Spain include the Iberians‚ the Celts‚ and the Basques groups. Then the Phoenicians came‚ who were later followed by the Greeks‚ who ruled Spain until they were defeated by the Romans. The last of the settlers to arrive were armies of Arabs and Berbers‚ whom were called Moors. Fascinated with water‚ they developed irrigation systems and planted citrus and almond trees in eastern and southern Spain. The Phoenicians arrived from the Mediterranean and brought

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    Spanish Quesadilla

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    Katie Nguyen Period 7 The Quesadilla The Quesadilla is a very popular food both served in the US and other Spanish speaking countries. The quesadilla can be served with many different ingredients and each has its own version. For example‚ in Mexico‚ a quesadilla is served with a corn tortilla and half filled with cheese and it is melted. In the northeastern part of Mexico‚ the quesadillas are like cheese tacos. Also‚ El Salvador has its own version of the quesadilla. Usually the Salvadoran quesadilla

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    Spanish Era

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    PRE-SPANISH LITERATURE Long before the Spaniards came to the Philippines‚ the Filipinos already had their own culture. It was similar in some aspects to that of the Malays but was enriched through their contact with other Asians like the Chinese and the Japanese and with the people India and some Arab countries. According to the early missionaries‚ the Filipinos had their own alphabet. The early Filipinos wrote on clay‚ barks of trees‚ bamboo tubes or palm leaves – materials that were easily

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    Spanish Midterm

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    Spanish II Midterm Exam Score: ______ / ______ Andrea Schumann Name: ____________________________ JM1213517 Student Number: ___________________ Directions: Type your answers in the submission box in the course. Use complete sentence (when applicable)‚ correct grammar‚ and correct spelling. All answers should be written in Spanish. 1 Srta. Nuncio’s class has written some classroom rules. Complete the sentences with the appropriate word or words. Modelo Para

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    The Spanish Inquisition

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    of all possessions and inherited freedoms‚ and sometimes even death. The Spanish Jews who selected to depart Spain instead of changing religions‚ scattered through the area of North Africa known as the Maghreb. In that area‚ they often interacted with the already present Mizrahi Arabic or Berber language communities‚ becoming the descendants of the Moroccan‚ Algerian‚ Tunisian and Libyan Jewish populations. Numerous Spanish Jews also escaped to the Ottoman Empire‚ where they were given sanctuary

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    Spanish Era

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    Government During the Spanish Period The Philippines was under the Spanish government for more than three centuries. Without any freedom and independence‚ Filipinos had to adjust and adapt to the new form of government as well as to different culture and traditions. The laws implemented in the country were all from the King of Spain passed through his representative who was called the Governor-General‚ “who was the source of civil power for the various levels of administration” (Agoncillo‚ 2008

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    Spanish Influenza

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    The Spanish influenza plagued Alaska from 1918 through 1919. The origin of the illness is unknown‚ but thought to be caused by the overcrowding in many army boot-camps or in the crowded trenches on the battlefields. This deadly strain of influenza was known to cause death in as little as 48 hours‚ and left thousands in Alaska dead. The first cases were reported in October 1918 and by Halloween there were 200 cases in Ketchikan. Many smaller communities had few medically trained people like nurses

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    Spanish Christmas

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    In a spanish christmas they don’t belive in santa claus .They belive that the 3 wiseman.Kids leave there shoes out side and believe that the 3 wiseman will come and fill there shoes up with presents.Most people in Spain go to Midnight Mass or ’La Misa Del Gallo’ (The Mass of the Rooster). It is called this because a rooster is supposed to have crowed the night that Jesus was born. Most families eat their main Christmas meal on Christmas Eve before the service. The traditional Spanish Christmas

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    The Spanish conquistadors aimed to express their power through the destruction of the ancient books not only to support their mission‚ but also to maintain a great control over the native population and force them into obedience. Horan and Begay emphasized the intolerant behavior of the Spaniards against other religions to explain the spark behind this incident‚ they stated that under Diego de Landa’s command the Mayan books were “burnt by the thousands because they were written by people who did

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    Basic Spanish

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    1. BASIC PHRASES [pic] [pic] [pic] |¡Buenos días!   |¡Buenas tardes!   |¡Buenas noches!   | |bway-nohs dee-ahs   |bway-nahs tard-ays   |bway-nahs noh-chays   | |Hello! / Good morning! |Good afternoon! |Good evening! / Good night! | |¡Hola! / ¡Chao!

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