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The big selling point to Jamestown's significance is the start of representative democratic government. The Virginia gentlemen formed a House of Burgesses to make local laws by majority vote in 1619, a year before the Mayflower Compact and the same year the first Africans were brought to the colony for work.
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Spain's • encomienda policy led to the enslavement of many natives. Spain created new colonies • and became enriched by conquering wealthy Indian empires in the Americas. By the 1400s, millions of Indians lived in the western hemisphere. Among them were the Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache in what is now New Mexico.
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38th parallel, popular name given to latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea. The line was chosen by U.S. military planners at the Potsdam Conference (July 1945) near the end of World War II as an army boundary, north of which the U.S.S.R.
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The correct answer is France.
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With the excuse of sending reinforcement troops to the French Army occupying Portugal, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1840) invaded Spain in <em>February 1808</em>. Only four months after the initial invasion, France forces had already taken Pamplona, Barcelona, and Madrid causing King Charles IV of Spain to give up his throne. Napoleon took advantage and his brother, Joseph, was proclaimed king of Spain. Until 1813, thanks to the intervention of British expeditionary <em>Arthur Wellesley</em> (later named Duke of Wellington) and small irregular Spanish bands called the <em>guerrillas</em>, the Iberian Peninsula was liberated.
As a result of the french invasion in the Iberian Peninsula, french philosophical movements such as en Enlightenment was spread over Spain, and later on, over its colonies.