Cuba has been a colony of Spain back in 1762.
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Sparta fought Athens in the Peloponnesian War in 431 BC because of Sparta's fear of the rising power of Athens.
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was to find raw materials in America as a result of their inability to find gold they began cultivation of tobacco in 1607 and this resulted in English crown wealth