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    person trying to decide whether to stick with your religion or convert to christianity. The Aztec and spanish had many differences and similarities in the way that they practiced religion. Both religions had different ways that they celebrated gods sacrifice and religious leaders. One of the similarities that the Aztec and spanish had was that they both had gods. The Aztec had many gods and the spanish had one god. Huitzilopochtli‚ the Aztecs favorite god was the one to tell the Aztecs to leave their

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    of the Spanish conquest in the America’s stems from the backlash against the Spanish in the late 1500’s early 1600’s. Following the disaster of the Spanish Armada crushing Spain as a maritime power and the alliance of Portugal with England‚ it was convenient to use the reputation of cruelty and ruthlessness to motivate people to fight against them and to justify colonization methods. While the vilification of Spain as an entity in Europe has existed for centuries‚ with the Spanish Inquisition as a

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    Spanish American War

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    Spanish American war The Spanish American War was a very interesting war‚ some don’t know how the war started. The war was mostly started when the USS Maine blew up killing 250 American sailors‚ but if it wasn’t for Cuban rebels attack American plantations the USS Maine wouldn’t have been in Cuba due to the fact that President McKinley wanted nothing to do with Cuba’s battle for independence. McKinley wanted to stay at peace but due to what journalist were publishing American

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    some important influences in Spain. The Spanish Crown established royal controls over the ecclesiastical benefices and over the immense wealth of the church.[ii] Two papal bulls were issued in the year of 1493 that established the Spanish position in the New World. They also established the role that the Church was going to play in the New World. The first bull‚ issued on May 3‚ 1493‚ was called the Inter Caetera. It declared that lands discovered by Spanish envoys‚ not under a Christian owner‚

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    English sought territory to expand their empire‚ and the Spanish were much more complex. The Spanish made one purposeful thrust into the New World in the 16th century to claim the industrious Natives as subjects of the Crown and Church. A century later‚ the Spanish returned to the New World. The Spanish unleashed forces of change that changed the lives of the native people throughout the arena that the Anglo-Americans call the Southwest. The Spanish affected the culture and structure of the Southwest

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    OER Essay Spanish Settlements/ Mission Systems • The Spanish rule in Texas had many details and trends connecting to it. When the Spanish first came to Texas and built missions‚ their only goal was to convert the Texans into Catholicism‚ teach them their lifestyle‚ and rule Texas. That did not last very long. When the French arrived to Texas and started trading with the Native Americans‚ the Spanish wanted to get the French out because they did not want foreigners on their land. From then

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    The Spanish-American War was a four-month conflict between Spain and the United States‚ provoked by word of Spanish colonial brutality in Cuba. Although the war was largely brought about by the efforts of U.S. expansionists‚ many Americans supported the idea of freeing an oppressed people controlled by the Spanish. At war’s end‚ America emerged victorious with newly acknowledged respect as a world power. Reasoning for war Until the 1890s‚ ambivalence about overseas possessions had restrained

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    Adjectives What are they? In Spanish as well as in English‚ an adjective describes the person‚ things‚ etc. that a noun refers to. We use adjectives to say what a person is like or seems like Adjectives can give us information about: • Quality • Size • Age • Temperature • Shape • Colour • Origin An adjective can also describe the idea(s) contained in a whole group of words -Robert’s ideas about the future are absurd They can give general or precise information -What ’s the car like

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    The Spanish civil war is often seen as a fundamental divide between right and left- the first major struggle between Fascism and Communism. The Spanish civil war started distinctly as a Spanish civil war born out of Spanish disputes‚ but it was soon to take on an international character. The military situations were practically equal to both sides before the foreign intervention. However‚ after Germany‚ Italy‚ and USSR intervened the situation changed dramatically. In general‚ the decision by foreign

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    their surrounding natural resources which would be then used in trading‚ selling‚ and building ships‚ etc. Although both the British and the Spanish colonies existed for the profit and the power of the core nation‚ the two nations featured different systems of colonial administration.

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