The Dominance of Spain and its Habsburg Rulers(1492 - 1648) Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile and their marriage produced the modern state of Spain. ... The defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) and the loss of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (completed by 1648) mark the end of Spain's greatness. ... Spain slipped in power. ... England France, Spain and Sweden were considered great powers. ... This war helped Germany to replace France as a major power and also due to Bismarck diplomacy the Austria was replaced by Italy as major power. ...

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The Enlightenment in Spain came with the new Bourbon dynasty, and in Charles II. ... Charles was in favor fo the modernization of Spain. ... This specifically pertains to Charles III in Spain. He wants to help the free market while also centralize commerce. ... His line came into power after the Hadsburgs and his Bourbon line was seen as this new face a Spain, and also someone that would bring Spain back. ...

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For example, the changes to the legal procedure help to explain the growth of persecution. ... On the other hand, strongly Catholic societies like Spain and Italy were relatively free from witch-hunting. The best example of this concerns the attitude of the Inquisitor Alonso de Salazar, who investigated an outbreak of witch hunting in the Spanish Basque country. ... In the process he brought an end to the Spanish Inquisitions connections with the prosecution of witches. The Inquisition subsequently intervened with local jurisdictions in Spain to bring persecution to an end. ...

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Two different stories from Las Casas, a Dominican priest ,and Josephe an Indian that spoke Spanish that witnessed the brutality that the Indians had to face will be discussed to paint a clear image for what happened in the past, and to help show the historical context of the arising history. ... Soon Cortes after arriving took the Aztec empire over with the help of bombarding them with disease that the Indians had no immunity to and were powerless to defeat without the help of modern day medicine. The Spanish empire reached from Mexico throughout the southwest of North America all the way ...

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France was military and economically weaker than Catholic Spain. ... Spain began an occupation of Netherlands. ... The wealth acquired helped the Dutch-English war effort but it also made Spain poorer. ... To make matters worse, The Portuguese rebelled against the Spanish therefore Spain had to divert some troops to subdue the rebellion in Portugal. ... France launched an invasion into Spain causing Spain to call back more troops from the battlefields to defend the Western Hapsburg seat of Power. ...

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Being Spanish made you the best of all races, but what if your were an Indian, or black how did that affect their population. ... What is ironic is that, once they are free, they do the same thing the Spanish did. ... The Incas had a trade system with their rural cities, which helped the capital. ... When the Spanish arrived they take advantage of this "trade" system and used it against Latin America. ... Most of the rural population migrates to the cities in hope of finding jobs to help their families and find these inhuman conditions. ...

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Going against their Catholic king, the Bohemian Protestants decided to call in outside help from Ferdinand of Austria. ... General Ambrogio di Spinola sent a 20,000-man army from the Spanish Netherlands to be under the direction of Gonzales de Cordoba to occupy Mainz. ... To the north an beyond the Neckard river an army led by Christian of Brunswick stood ready to help the Protestant forces. ... The young Protestant leader with his 12,000 men was in desperate need of help. ... In 1636, Spanish invasions of French territory were repelled. ...

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Sculptors were brought in by Abbot Suger to help carry on the rich heritage of Romanesque Burgundy. ... Spain was also a little late going into the gothic period mainly because it remained in a state of political disunity throughout the Middle Ages. ... Some of Spain's finest French-inspired cathedrals are Toledo, Burgos, and Leon, which have the finest display of stained glass in the country. ... The last phase of the Spanish gothic era has exuberant vaults, cloisters and towers, and Pateresque ornament. This popular form of decoration continued to cover surfaces from Gothic in to Sp...

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Thanks to Charles Martel there is a Christian church and the Muslims never got further into Europe than Spain. ... It seems that in 777 a Muslim named Ibn al-Arabi called Charlemagne for help against a neighboring kingdom of Cordova. ... Charlemagne decided not to risk laying siege to the powerhouse of Cordova without inner turmoil to help him. ... He never forgot what happened in his unfinished business of the Spanish March. He led another campaign back and claimed the Spanish border cities as his own in 795. ...

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What this looked like in practice and how it was implemented puts it into a more realized idea and will help us comprehend its origins and development, and impact today. ... From France, feudalism spread to the major European countries including Spain, Italy, Scandinavia, Germany England, and the Slavic countries.ii Ultimately, people, land, and relationships were the most basic ingredients of feudalism. ... The rise of powerful monarchs in France, Spain, and England helped to break down the localized system. An increase in communication broke down the isolated manor, supported the rise of to...

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Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean in 1492, helped to influence new cultures, beliefs and lifestyles; this originated the Columbian Exchange. ... Before 1492, the Irish, Spanish, and Swiss didn't eat the same things they eat now. ... It didn't take long after the horse was introduced to the New World by Spanish conquistadors for the Indian society to appreciate the strange beast and value the things it could do. ... The Columbian Exchange helps us to understand most of the changes in the New World today with regard to lifestyles, food, diseases, and the downfall and flouris...

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Diamond uses the Spanish invasion and conquest of the Incas in South America to illustrate how European diseases aided the Spanish in their victory against and obviously powerful society. ... This is one of the factors that helps to explain why Europe was able to advance faster than Africa, even though Africa had a head start. ...

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Thus, the Cycle Dramas or English Passion Plays were performed with the permission and "help" of the church. ... We can see the double plot/sub plot structure becoming more and more significant and taking on more importance in plays such as Gorboduc, The Spanish Tragedy, most of Shakespeare's works, and ultimately in King Lear. ... He also developed the classic archetype of the Machiavel, which we see in almost every dramatic text from The Spanish Tragedy on. ...

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This helped to develop the cities economy which allowed the early modern city to change. ... Forms of political action helped shape and change the early modern city. ... Cities also changed in size and structure, the reason for this was due to an improvement in trade, the economy, technology, whilst religion helped shaped and developed science and education. ... Catholic Spain through its administrative rule led to an experience of growth e.g. ... This was partially through counter reformation tactics but also through controlling trade with the spanish west indies, Seville was transformed into...

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The Iron Age helped already made weapons even stronger. ... They often used the stars to help them on their way" (51). ... During the Spanish Armada a ship called a war galley was used in battle. The Spanish armada and the British fleet fought with over two hundred ships. ...

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The Spanish, Portuguese, French, British and Japanese utilized their military force and the created innovation to extend their domains and searching for more regions. ... From Cape Coast in modern Ghana to Luanda in Angola, founded in 1579 by the Portuguese, Atlantic port towns nominally under European control helped to foster a cosmopolitan society where European and African bloodlines and influences merged. ... Some of the major colonizers known to date are France, Denmark, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom (LCN). ... As the former improved the basis of help for specialized routines, th...

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The movement started out in Italy and spread to England, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and other countries. ... The humanists were scholars and artists who studied subjects that they believed would help them understand the problems of humanity. ... The fact that the cities Italy, so strategically located between the Levant and Western Europe, were the oldest and wealthiest of the towns and helps to account for the leadership of Italy in the Renaissance. ... The church also had periods of reform when reformers would step up and try to help the church's situation, even though n...

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Currently, company driven expatriations are on a rise, among the most popular expatriate countries, the rankings are led by: Germany, Belgium, Spain, France and Russia in Europe, USA and Canada the in North America, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Hong Kong in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa. [1] As the need for development of global leadership and the growth of new business ventures abroad increases, a massive rise in global mobility is to be observed. ... Some companies will completely cover the cost of children's education, or encourage and help families find...

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"Some experts say Europe's economic woes are holding back economic recovery in the United States by undermining consumer confidence, exports and investments and that the U.S. government should do more to help Europe fix its problems. ... By implementing the Euro it was supposed to be strong against the dollar and would help trading, investing and traveling. ... " By joining the 17-nation Eurozone, some less-prosperous countries - notably Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy - suddenly had access to cheap credit. ... Also will the U.S. help bail out any of the countries in ...

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Smoking and Restaurants Tobacco smoking was introduced to Europe in the sixteenth century by Spanish explorers (Berger 11). ... Therefore, providing an incentive to help someone to quit smoking could indeed help a person to finally quit the hazardous habit. ... However, sections do not help with the health issues brought on by secondhand smoke. ...

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To find asylum, the refugees migrated into European countries, such as Turkey, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Middle Eastern countries like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and many countries around the world. ... The question is that throughout the history, America has always been the world leader in refugee resettlement, then why is it so afraid to help the refugees in the current crisis? ... Obviously, many Americans do not want to help suffering people like they did in the past anymore. ... In conclusion, as its core value and tradition, America should open a wider entry for the Syrian refu...

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Spain, central and southern Italy, the northern coast of Germany, the Adriatic coast of modern Croatia and the Grand Duchy of Warsaw were some of the conquered areas that experienced none of the benefits that were felt in parts of western Europe annexed to France which included much of western Germany and north-western Italy, as well as all of modern Belgium. ... "He extorted millions from Dutch merchants, the Swiss, the Italians, and even the Portuguese."3 Thus, economic changes were made that helped Napoleon instead of the people of Europe. ... Napoleon used the church to help h...

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From the CIA World Factbook data I have drawn these conclusions through a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that I created: Country GDP (as of 1/1/00) Military Spending as of (1/1/00) Austria $190.6 billion $1.7 billion Belgium 243.4 billion 2.8 billion Denmark 127.7 billion 2.822 billion Finland 108.6 billion 1.8 billion France 1.373 trillion 39.831 billion Germany 1.864 trillion 32.8 billion Greece 149.2 billion 4.04 billion Ireland 73.7 billion 732 million Italy 1.212 trillion 23.294 billion Luxembourg 14.7 billion 131 million The Netherlands 365.1 billion 6.956 billion Portugal 151...

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