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• Empire
  ...n its final century of existence, was more a city-state than a territorial empire. [[Etymologically]], the political usage of “empire” denotes a strong, centrally-controlled nation-state, but, in the looser,
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• Aztec
  ...med the Aztec Triple Alliance which has also become known as the "'''Aztec Empire'''". In other contexts it may refer to all the various city states and thei ...aised islets in [[Lake Texcoco]]. The Triple Alliance formed its tributary empire expanding its political hegemony far beyond the Valley of Mexico, conquerin
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• Abolition
  ...continued to [[campaign]] for the abolition of [[slavery]] in the British Empire, which he lived to see in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolit ...region up to 1888 in Brazil, as well as having long life in the remaining Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico. In some parts of Africa and in much of th
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• Divan
  ...iwān; in Turkish divān, whence in many European languages, Italian divano, Spanish divan, Portuguese divan, French divan. Originally, in early use, a brochure ...y [[council]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire]
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• Crusades
  blend of Middle French croisade & Spanish cruzada; both [[ultimately]] from [[Latin]] cruc-, crux cross ...France and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire Holy Roman Empire]. The specific crusades to restore [[Christian]] [[control]] of the [https:
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• Latin
  ...ly in [[Europe]], as the official language of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, and, after Rome's conversion to Christianity, of the [[Roman Catholic Chur ..., is the ancestor of the [[Romance]] languages ([[Italian]], [[French]], [[Spanish]], [[Portuguese]], [[Romanian]], [[Catalan]], [[Romansh]], and other region
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• Conquest
  ...rg/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire] and various [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests Muslim conques
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• Quetzalcoatl
  ...Mesoamerica]] for close to 2,000 years, from the Pre-Classic era until the Spanish conquest. Civilizations worshiping the Feathered Serpent included the [http ...etzalcoatl's return. Most documents expounding this theory are of entirely Spanish origin, such as Cortés's letters to Charles V of Spain, in which Cortés g
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• Hegemony
  ...ultural and non-military dominance, as opposed to the related notions of [[empire]] and [[suzerainty]]. ...resisted in the past when it came about by conquest." or historically the Spanish and British Empires.
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• Languages and Literature
  ...rces Spanish speakers to use it to mean "nothing". That is the meaning all Spanish speakers have memorized for that sound pattern. But for [[Croatian language In the [[Middle East]], the [[Persian Empire|Persian]] linguist [[Sibawayh]] made a detailed and professional descriptio
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• Novel
  ...nish and the English went one step further and allowed the word ''novel'' (Spanish: ''novela'') to become their regular term for fictional narratives. ...was a work of new epic proportions, with the effect that the English (and Spanish) eventually needed a new word for the original short "novel": The term [[no
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• Civilization
  ...]] and [[Indian Ocean]] sea routes linking the [[Roman Empire]], [[Persian Empire]], [[India]], and [[China]], were well established 2000 years ago, when the ...n|Edward Gibbon's]]''' massive work ''"[[The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]"'' began an interest in the Fall of Civilizations, that had begun with th
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• Immanuel Wallerstein
  ...by [https://www.agenceglobal.com Agence Global]. Wallerstein is fluent in Spanish and French. ...There is no political centre, compared to global empires like the [[Roman Empire]]; instead the capitalist world system is integrated on the world market. I
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• Jesus Christ Superstar
  ...elieve that he is becoming a threat to the Roman Empire. And if the Roman Empire is threatened, then many Jews will suffer – perhaps even those who are no ...e singer Camilo Blanes Cortés aka [[Camilo Sesto]] in the [[1975]] [[Spain|Spanish]] one. In [[Germany]], the show can be seen every year in different product
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• Mediterranean Sea
  ...; the [[Mesopotamia]]n, [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]], [[Semitic]], [[Persian Empire|Persian]], [[Phoenicia]]n, [[Carthage|Carthaginian]], [[Ancient Greece|Gree * The [[Spain|Spanish]] enclaves of [[Ceuta]] and [[Melilla]] and nearby islands
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• Translation
  ..." (Spanish-English), "Poglish" (Polish-English) and "Portuñol" (Portuguese-Spanish). ...oing translation efforts spanning well over a thousand years. The [[Tangut Empire]] was especially efficient in such efforts; exploiting the then newly-inven
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• 2014-09-19-New Era Conversations 30
  ...se nations? They eventually brought about the total collapse of the Roman Empire, did they not? You are seeing a reenactment of that now in your world with ...nal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2014-09-19-Nuevas_Conversaciones_de_la_Era_30 Spanish]]]
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• Culture
  ...nationalist struggles by ethnic minorities against the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] — developed a more inclusive notion of culture as "[[worldview]]." In t ...escended from former slaves), and the immigration of Europeans, especially Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, German, Irish, Italian and Dutch.
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• Cultural
  ...nationalist struggles by ethnic minorities against the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] — developed a more inclusive notion of culture as "[[worldview]]." In t ...escended from former slaves), and the immigration of Europeans, especially Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, German, Irish, Italian and Dutch.
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• Anthropology
  ..., [[Greece]], and the successors to the [[Austro-Hungarian]] and [[Ottoman empire]]s). In the former, the encounter with multiple, distinct cultures, often v ...World War stranded him in New Guinea. As a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire resident on a British colonial possession, he was effectively confined to N
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