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At its height, the Spanish Empire was one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires in history, spanning continents and oceans. So why did it collapse? In this video, we uncover the key reasons ...
For starters, for over two centuries, our island was an outpost of the vast Spanish empire when Spain was the only super-power on the planet. Those were the days of the annual Manila galleons ...
One thing is clear: the discovery of these coins not only confirms the ship’s identity but also opens a new window into the scale of wealth, power, and plunder that fueled the Spanish Empire’s ...
Picture: Tadhg O'Keeffe/Port Of Cork The Port of Cork has welcomed the ship — which is a reconstruction of the ships that once served the Spanish Empire, crossed the Atlantic, and fought off ...
For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?
The three-century-old Spanish empire was obsessed with blood—how it conveyed lineage and, in the Spanish view, confirmed virtue. Jus sanguinis had been the law of the land, and a good part of ...
CAIRO (AP) — Three Spanish pilgrims performing the Hajj in Saudi Arabia rode on horseback to Mecca, traveling thousands of kilometers in snow and rain and along a path they said had not been ...
“It was New Spain (the Virreinato de Nueva España), part of the Spanish Empire.” The Spanish colonized Los Angeles in 1781 as a strategic bulwark against the Russian and British Empires, which had ...
Other than English, Spanish is the most common language in Connecticut, with more than 191,000 households, or 13.5% of the state, speaking the language. Hartford is home to one of the largest ...
Warner Bros. Discovery WBD7.28%increase; green up pointing triangle Chief Executive David Zaslav loves the 1941 Humphrey Bogart classic “The Maltese Falcon” about a group of unsavory ...
Eventually the researchers were able to attribute the network activity to a mysterious — and at the time completely unknown — Spanish-speaking hacking group that they called Careto ...