Roosevelt and most Americans considered the Pearl Harbor attack to be a dirty trick, because it occurred while the Japanese ambassador was talking with the US about keeping peace in-between the two nations.
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The first Dutch expedition arrived at the East Indies, a term which refers to the lands of South and Southeast Asia, in 1595 trying to access to spices directly from Asia. When the Dutch government recognized the potential of the East Indies trade had, with a 400% profit, and with the intention of dominating trade in Southeast Asia, they amalgamated the competing companies into the United East India Company, which was granted a contract to make trades across Asia, monopolizing initially the indigenous spices such as nutmeg, peppers, cloves and cinnamon and then the non-indigenous products like coffee, tea, cacao, tobacco, rubber, sugar and opium.
This Dutch hegemony reached their greatest extent in the early 20th century, becoming in one of the most valuable European enterprises under the Dutch Empire, which contributed to their global prominence.
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1. Moctezuma II welcomed the Spanish, thinking that Cortes was the human incarnation of the god Quetzalcoatl
2. Cortes and his man brought smallpox to the city of Tenochtitlan, killing many Aztec
3. Cortes established alliances with enemies of the Aztec such as the Tlaxcalans
4. Cortes marched up the coast of Mexico and conquered the territory of Veracruz
Explanation:
When the Spanish arrived in Mexico, the Aztecs were thinking that they were deities, and that Cortes is a human incarnation of Quetzalcoatl, with the main reason for that being that they looked much different and came with ships from where the legend said that Quetzalcoatl will one day return. The Spanish used this in their advantage and left the Aztecs to think that way, bringing them in their capital and making them familiar with it, but also brought smallpox with in the city, killing off the Aztecs. Cortes and his men were hungry for gold, and the Aztecs had lot of it. The Spanish understood that most of the people conquered by the Aztecs hated them, so they made alliances with them in order to attack them and take over their empire. Together, the Spanish and the local people managed to defeat the Aztecs and took over their territory, marking the beginning of the Spanish empire in the New World.
