<span>Spain and Portugal were bound by the Treaty of Tordesillas, so the Spanish had to sail westward and travel through the Americas to get to the Pacific and finally the Philippines. It is also their only direct access -- meaning without going through intermediaries -- to the east Indies, as all other parts were to be the domain of the Portuguese.
Further, as Spain faced increasing competition from their rivals the English, Dutch, French in the Atlantic world, their Pacific route was inaccessible to these rivals until much later.</span>
The concept of the middle ground is helpful in understanding the attitudes of Indians living between the Appalachians and Mississippi.
On October 27, 1810, U.S. President James Madison proclaimed that the United States Should take possession of West Florida between the Mississippi and Perdido Rivers, based on the the tenuous claim that it was part of the Louisiana Purchase.
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The pardoner is characterized in this passage as AN EFFECTIVE SPEAKER AND A SKILLED CON ARTIST.
From the passage given above, the pardoner is shown to be an effective speaker who know how to get the attention of his audience, he is also shown to be a skilled con artist because from the passage we are told that he tricks other people to believe in his lies.
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Yellow journalism, the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation. The phrase was coined in the 1890s to describe the tactics employed in the furious competition between two New York City newspapers, the World and the Journal.
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