Sharp decrease in numbers of native Indians.
One of the main reasons why Spanish conquistadors had to look for slaves from Africa, was the radical decrease in the populations of native Indians. The Indians had either died out of diseases or during the war of conquest. In addition, inter marriages had also occurred, and usually the mestizos were exempted from months of forced hard labor in the farms and the mines. However the main cause of decline of populations of native Indians was diseases such as small pox which the Spanish colonists had brought with them.
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Answer: Because of the organization and capable leadership of the empire.
Explanation:
Byzantium did not survive by "mere luck." Byzantium has maintained thanks to capable leaders, an organization, skilled diplomats and an excellent military organization. True, he did not possess "that splendour" as the Western Roman Empire at its height, but it is wrong to think that thanks to luck, the empire was maintained for almost a thousand years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The great French Byzantologist and historian Charles Diehl says<em> "The Byzantine Empire was a captive of Christianity in the east, against the unbelievers it saved Europe in a few moments by its inferiority, in the Middle Ages ".</em>
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Wiesel was invited to the White House by President Clinton as part of the Millennium Lecture series to talk about the darkness of the past, and to brighten our journey into the new century.
Explanation:
Answer: the availability of water power.
During the Industrial Revolution, the textile industry was mechanized and increasingly done in an industrial scale. One of the most important additions was the fully mechanized water-power system that Samuel Slater brought from England. He smuggled (as it was against the law) his knowledge of textile machinery to the United States, and in 1793, established a cotton-spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The availability of water power made this a perfect location. He went on to build several more cotton and wool mills throughout New England.
