Port of Spain

Asia and the Americas. Several European countries raced to claim unmarked territories to be known as empire builders. Trade and colonization’s were other reasons how Europe was impacted. The explorations and conquests of the conquistadors transformed Spain. The Spanish led to an expansion to foreign trade as well as overseas…

Spanish attempted to sail westward across the Atlantic Ocean. Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator, believed the Earth was not as large as others thought and believed he could reach Asia by sailing west. Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain finally accepted to sponsor his voyage in 1492. Days later, he landed in the Bahamas, near the islands of Cuba and Haiti, firmly believing he was in Asia. He later realized he had found a New World. Columbus is credited with discovering the…

Venerable, Magnificent, Exquisite, Exclusive; all words describing the harmonious Barcelona, Spain. It is a city unlike any other, with its unique heritage. The agriculture and its blissful coastline are what give Barcelona a distinctive personality. Barcelona is one of the most open and vibrant Mediterranean cities in all of Europe. The Romans founded Barcelona in the first century B.C; the colony was named for the ruler Hamilcar Barca. The colony was originally called Barcino. In 801…

of one of the longest lived and successful totalitarian regimes in European history. This paper will analyze the Civil War and some of the effects on Spanish and European society years following the establishment of Francisco Franco as dictator of Spain. The ensuing Civil War became a limited proxy war for powers of the left and right to establish their own ideological beliefs and possibly…

history. From his early years, Franco was involved in the military and climbed the ladder to eventually be general and dictator of Spain. At the highest point in his career, Franco lead the Nationalists rebellion against the government which eventually resulted in his position as dictator of Spain. Eventually adopting the name of “El Caudillo”, Francisco Franco would lead Spain into what is now a democracy. Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was born in El Ferrol on December 4, 1892. Born into a…

Alhambra vases are a group of large ceramics vases painted in luster. They were produced in southern Spain in the fourteenth century. Only ten complete vases exist today. Each of these vases are named after its provenance or some distinguishing characteristics, these names are not universally accepted. These works of art were produced in the Nasrid dynasty, the last of the Muslim rulers in Spain, who reigned from 1232 to 1492. They were called the Alhambra vases because it was believed that they…

place in New Spain were sabotage, running away, malingering,…

people to convert to christianity. Colombus would come back and attempt to settle the land with a thousand men but fails. Later on a man named Nicola de Ovando arrived with two thousand five hundred men and established the first permanent base for spain. Spain took an early lead in European expansion. As Spain’s reach grew, so did its problems with the indigenous people of the new land they had discovered. The Spanish were taking the indigenous people and forcefully converting them to their…

Portuguese, Italian, and Moroccan. The population represents the different waves of immigration over the past 300 years. The official language is English, but there are a lot of people who speak Spanish. Gibraltar’s border with the North is with Southern Spain. La Linea of the Cadiz province is the town closest to the border. La Linea is a very poor town and is struggling economically. Many of the people who live in La…

On August third, fourteen ninety-two Columbus left port from Spain, heading to find the eastern pathway to Asia. Columbus being the world’s best sea navigator at the time believed that if he took the North West trade winds he would land in the West Indies (Historic World Leaders). As taking these trade…