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Monographs of the school of american research, santa fe, new mexico. Responsibility translated from the aztec into english, with notes and illus. The belief that, by prolonged meditation and abstraction from the phenomenal world, the soul can elevate itself to the creator, and can even attain union with the godhead, has existed from the earliest times and among many races. Reviewed in the united states on september 12, 2014. The spanish civil war 19361939 by antony beevor, imperial spain, 1469 1716 by j.
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Spain has seen many tribal groupings coming through and settling and mixing to produce the current colourful mixture which are the spaniards and other, still separate groups. The victorious general francisco franco ruled as a brutal dictator until his death in 1975. Early in the morning of october 12, 1492, a sailor on board the pinta sighted land, beginning a new era of european exploration and expansion. The viceroyalty of new spain included all of the territory claimed by spain in north america and the caribbean from the conquest of the aztec empire in the 1520s until the final assertion of mexican independence in 1821. It is a nice coverage of the very complex past of spain from prehistory to the present. Published by the school of american research and the university of utah. General history of the things of new spain, 12 volumes. After the completion of the reconquista, the crown of castile began to explore across the atlantic ocean in 1492. General history of the things of new spain hathitrust. Hernando cortez is the name of the leader of the expedition, commonly associated with new spain, and mexico, the ancient capital of the aztec empire.
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