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4 days ago · Spanish language, Romance language (Indo-European family) spoken as a first language by some 360 million people worldwide. In the early 21st century, Mexico had the greatest number of speakers, followed by Colombia, Argentina, the United States, and Spain. It is an official language of more than 20 countries.
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1 day ago · Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language speakers.
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May 14, 2024 · conquistador, any of the leaders in the Spanish conquest of America, especially of Mexico and Peru, in the 16th century. An expedition against Aztec Mexico was led by Hernán Cortés , who set up a base camp at Veracruz in 1519 to prepare for an advance inland.
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May 8, 2024 · The Greenwood encyclopedia of Latino literature [electronic resource] by edited by Nicolas Kanellos. ISBN: 9780313339707. This three-volume encyclopedia of Latino literature is a result of a project initiated by the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage organization, and covers a wide range of works from the colonial era to around 1960 ...
2 days ago · Primary Source. The Florentine Codex. Annotation. This is an excerpt from the twelfth book of the Historia general de las Cosas de Nueva España ( General History of the Things of New Spain ), an encyclopedic work about the people and culture of central Mexico compiled by Fray Bernardino Sahagún (1499-1590).