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4 days ago · The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile. These overseas territories of the Spanish Empire were under the jurisdiction of Crown of Castile ...
4 days 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 ...
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1 day ago · Migrants from all over the Spanish-speaking world converge in New York, which has long been creating a new variety of Spanish, resulting from the encounter between so many different ways of speaking the common language. Nowhere else in the Spanish-speaking world does something like this happen.
1 day ago · The Spanish Empire, [b] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy [c] or the Catholic Monarchy, [d] [5] [6] [7] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. [8] [9] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered the Age of Discovery and achieved a global scale, [10] controlling vast portions of the Americas, Africa ...
1 day ago · SPAN 5010 - Development of Spanish Language. [3] This course is repeatable: No Total # of units allowed for credit: 3 Max times this course can be taken for credit: 1 Max # of units may be repeated: 0 Course Description: Scientific analysis of written and spoken Spanish from its inception through its current use in the Hispanic world.
3 days ago · Spanish is a global language, the second most spoken native language in the world. The historical ties with Spain, the proximity of Spanish America, and the presence of many Spanish speakers in the United States make knowledge of Spanish and the culture of the Spanish-speaking world highly relevant to students in all disciplines.
5 days ago · ‘[M]uch of the language of elite reform, Harling concludes in an important observation, was a language of ‘anti-Reform’.(p. 99) When the Reform Act was finally conceded, it was in the face of the sheer scale of outside agitation and in recognition that ‘practical improvements’ were insufficient to stave off demands for parliamentary ...
