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How did they cross the channel , or from Britain to Ireland, before the age of oceanic travel in the XVI century....in celtic times roman times, medieval times ? What kind of ships were used?

The USA was more imperialistic in the XIX century than nowadays, from the war with Mexico, from conquering Puerto Rico Cuba and the Philippines, and when they helped separate Panama from Colombia to create the channel. Back then it behaved like a European Power, now it is much less imperialistic.

Ideas about the "nordic race" being superior were not only of lunatics, they were quite mainstream back then, before world war 2 in comparison to current times, almost all people were racists, european anthropologists would say the msot outrageous things before world war 2, and it was considered...

Queen Mary the one which made catholicism in england again died of stomach cancer, she thought she was pregnant for a while

The battle of Bicocca, during the italian wars, was a major victory for Spain, in which they faced a French + Swiss mercenaries force which outnumbered over 3 times, and the spaniards won , killing over 3.000 swiss and french soldiers, while not losing a single soldier. "More generally, the...

Brazil has made spanish a mandatory language in their schools. If they want to dominate south america, they will have to do it in spanish, because Argentines, Peruvians etc, are not going to learn portuguese.

Because your neighbours are much wealthier? But that doesnt mean you are poor, maybe because I come from the poorest country in south america I have a different concept of poverty. My father used to say, the german reunification happened, not because east germans were poor, but because...

In south america phones didnt really become easy to get till the late 80´s I think the people in eastern europe didnt have the luxuries of wealthy west euro countries, but for sure were not "poor" For comparison, the gdp per capita of the Soviet Union in 1987, was the same as that of...

Written by Pedro de Gamboa When we come to consider attentively what these barbarians of Peru relate of their origin and of the tyrannical rule of the Incas Ccapacs, and the fables and extravagances they recount, the truth may be distinguished from what is false, and how in some of their...

True, in Spanish America the native americans were subdits, payed taxes etc, were converted to christianity, learned spanish, and intermarried with the spaniards, they had a very similar position to peasants in medieval europe, with he spaniards as the feudal lord- In english america the...

Most mexicans are mixed spanish native american, the spaniards who came to the americas were usually men who traveled alone, so they had to pick a local native american girl if they wanted a woman (or the daughter of some previous spanish native american marriage) You could say mexicans are...

Pragmatically, I think minority languages (say welsh or basque for example) for example are for speaking at home, speaking at public with someone when you dont want to be understood by other people (like my friends who speak guarani when they dont want me to know what they are talking about), or...

Tibet is not a good comparison, in this case Tibet would be all ireland, and North Ireland would be Tibet regions were since the chinese invasion ethnic han chinese have become the majority. In China there is a perfect anology further north Ireland would be Mongolia, and north ireland...

I believe Ireland is a unity, I think when it was a colony it was seen as a unity by the english too you say most people in north ireland want to continue being a part of the UK, but if in the near future those who want to join the rest of ireland become the majority in say, half of the...

Something funny, is that an atlantic Spain as Castilla + Portugal could have existed instead of the Castilla + Aragon that happened at the end Imagine a country not bothered by wars in italy, france or the netherlands, completely dedicated to expansion in the americas and east indies