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v. t. e. An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". [1] The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) exercises political control over the peripheries. [2]
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire began in February 1519 when Hernán Cortés founded the Spanish city of Veracruz. The 1521 capture of Tenochtitlan and immediate founding of the Spanish capital Mexico City on its ruins was the beginning of a 300-year-long colonial era during which Mexico was known as Nueva España . Two factors made ...
The Spanish–American War was a war fought between Spain and the United States in 1898, partly because many people in Cuba, one of the last parts of the Spanish Empire, wanted to become independent. Many Americans also wanted their country to get a colonial empire . Spain lost the sea war and so had to give up Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto ...
Peru is located on the central western coast of South America facing the Pacific Ocean. It lies wholly in the Southern Hemisphere, its northernmost extreme reaching to 1.8 minutes of latitude or about 3.3 kilometres (2.1 mi) south of the equator, covers 1,285,216 km 2 (496,225 sq mi) of western South America.
Two horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) and yellow (middle). The yellow stripe is twice the height of each red stripe. Designed by. Charles III. The national flag of Spain (Spanish: Bandera de España) [a], as it is defined in the Constitution of 1978, consists of three horizontal stripes: red, yellow and red, the yellow stripe being ...
Spanish Captaincies. New Spain (1524), elevated to Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1535. Peru (1528), elevated to Viceroyalty of Peru in 1542. Chile (1541), originally part of the Viceroyalty of Peru, it was split off in 1789 as a captaincy general. Guatemala (1560), raised to captaincy general in 1609. Yucatán (1564), which included Campeche and ...
The rest of 19th-century Spanish art followed European trends, generally at a conservative pace, until the Catalan movement of Modernisme, which initially was more a form of Art Nouveau. Picasso dominates Spanish Modernism in the usual English sense, but Juan Gris, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró are other leading figures.
