Freturned back to Spain. Even though he did not find was he was seeking, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado still managed to discover some pretty interesting things even if he didn't even know it.…
King Philip II of Spain was murdered on September 1, 1598, although there were many suspects from all over the world, a few stood out and were connected to each other. During the time of King Philip II’s reign, Spain was in an ongoing power struggle with another powerful country, England. Due to the power struggle, Philip and Queen Elizabeth of England weren’t on good terms, constantly trying to invade the other’s country, in order to rise as the most powerful country of Europe. Just a few years before the death of Philip, on August 8th, 1558, the Spanish Armada took place, where he wanted to send a fleet of 130 ships, in order to take over England and make them completely Catholic, once again. However, the Spanish fleet was defeated and Elizabeth…
Under the Franco regime, Spain suffered international isolation, however in many terms. In 1955 the country was accepted as a member of the United Nations, and in 1970 General Franco named prince Juan Carlos his successor as the future king of Spain, thereby reestablishing the monarchy. Upon the dictator’s death in 1975 King Juan Carlos the first was crowned and the country set out on the long journey back to full democracy in Spain.…
Why did Phillip II launch the Armada and why did it fail? In the summer of 1588, the catholic king of Spain, Phillip II, came up with a plan to conquer protestant England. He would collect his army from the Netherlands and a huge fleet of 130 ships across the channel, with the help of France.…
So Philip launched the Spanish Armada in an attempt to punish Protestant England. He also raised taxes in the Netherland and took steps to crush Protestantism. To show his devotion to the church Philip poured a great deal of money into the palace El Escorial.…
Despite being separated by an entire continent, King Phillip’s War and The Pueblo Revolt paralleled each other in their causes, courses, and consequences. In New England, King Philip’s War was a conflict between the Wampanoag Indians and the English settlers of the Plymouth Colony from1675 to 1677. Far, far away in what is now New Mexico, the Pueblo Revolt was an uprising of Pueblo Indians against the Spanish settlers in the colony of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in 1680. Their similarities explain much about the relationships between Native Americans and European colonists at the time.…
The French, Spanish, and English all tried to colonize the Western Hemisphere. The French colonization in America started in the 16th century, and continued through centuries as France created an empire in the Western Hemisphere. They founded most colonies in the east of the U.S.A, and many Caribbean islands. The English were one of the most important colonizers of the Americas, and had a rivalry with the Spanish. The English began colonizing in the late 16th century and came out on top when all their colonies were built through America. The Spanish conquered most of the Western Hemisphere, and their colonization attempts were started by the Spanish conquistadors. It all started with Christopher…
On May 16, 2017 I Interviewed Manuel Plasencia about what it means to be American to him. According to Manuel, Dental Assistant, he feels like he sometimes has equal rights in America, because at time he is entitled to entitlement and at times not because the predicate society. He strongly feels like he would want to change the National Financial Program, because he gets money taken away, which in his point of view is wrong. Manuel has come to realize if he had the chance to leave America he would leave, he would go to Germany. It is more liberal and progressive there. He has had Financial Help from his Family, which has made his life in America less complicated throughout these years. If Manuel could change any law it would be the regressive tax law.…
and society rather than listening and accepting what his family members and other people tells…
In the 1400s, present-day Spain was not how it is today. The land was divided into three kingdoms: Castile, Aragon and Portugal. The region had a variety of religions and different cultures such as Islam and Christianity, along with Catholicism. (Walbert) This time period was when the Reconquista occurred, also known as Spain’s Golden Age. Isabella and Ferdinand played a major role in the Reconquista. They transformed most of what is now present day Spain and they spread the Catholic religion throughout Europe.…
The death of Charles II in November of 1700 marked the end of an era in Spanish history and the beginning of another. On his death bed Charles fought desperately to prevent the Spanish empire from being destroyed by political intrigue. The crown was being actively sought by three claimants, the prince of Bavaria, the archduke Charles of Austria, and Luis IV’s grandson, Philip Anjou. Charles decided on the French, Philip Anjou to succeed him.…
The Maragtas is a work by Pedro Alcantara Monteclaro titled (in English translation) History of Panay from the first inhabitants and the Bornean immigrants, from which they descended, to the arrival of the Spaniards. The work…
The Filipino labourers, called polistas, received the same treatment as slaves and thus they begin to develop a strong distaste for manual labor re-enforcing the apparent tendency of Filipinos to be indolent.…
1996 is a significant year for Filipinos all over the world. It marks the centennial of the Philippine Revolution, which started in 1896 and officially ended in 1902. The amount of literature generated during and after the Revolution, coupled with the continuing fascination on this period by historians and alike which have produced an infinite number of scholarly works, have validated the widespread perception that this was the most glorious page in the history of the Filipino people. The Philippine Revolution ended more than three centuries of Spanish colonial rule which began when Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founded the settlement of Cebu, the oldest Philippine city, in 1565. The Revolution is also heralded as the first anti-colonial independence movement in Asia. The Filipino proclamation of their independence two years after the outbreak of the Revolution was a momentous event for Filipinos of all persuasion. The Revolution began with the masses through the Katipunan, a secret, revolutionary, mass-based organization, and was later embraced by the middle class. Indeed, the Revolution was one of the few times where there was a convergence in the nationalist movements of the masses and the elite.…
Spain maintained control of the Philippine Islands for more than three centuries and a half. During the Spanish colonization of the Philippines we Filipinos lived in misery, exploitation, slavery and suffering. Because of misconduct and abuses of the Friars and the Civil, exhausted the patience of the natives and caused them to make a desperate effort to shake off the unbearable system then commencing the revolution to the Spanish colonial.…