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Hace 4 días · John II, the Perfect Prince, ruled Portugal from 1481-1495. He was believed to have been a proponent of Machiavellian philosophy, hence his nickname. After inheriting a mostly bankrupt nation, he began to follow the ideas of his great uncle, Prince Henry the Navigator, concerning voyages of discovery.
Hace 5 días · Jessica Madsen Talks Season 3 of Bridgerton and Cressida’s Surprising Arc. *Warning: Spoilers ahead for season three of Bridgerton and Cressida Cowper.*. If you’d told us at the start of ...
Conquered the Aztecs. Hernando Cortes. King of the Incas. Atahualpa. Portugal's empire was extensive, and the country thrived on: Trade. Portugal's only colony in the New World, Brazil, was: Was useless to the mercantilistic Portuguese government. The three main reasons for Portugal's decline as a world power were:
Hace 3 días · Germany - Prussia, Napoleon, Reunification: The peace proved short-lived, however, for at the end of 1798 a new coalition directed against France was formed (the War of the Second Coalition, 1798–1802). This time Prussia remained neutral. Frederick William III, a conscientious and modest but ineffectual ruler, was notable for private morality rather than political skill. The government in ...
Hace 2 días · The original desire of the group at the Society of Arts, which came to include Henry Cole, Charles Wentworth Dilke and John Scott Russell, to raise the standard of design of Britain's industrial produce in an artistic and scientific sense, was soon accompanied by Prime Minister Lord John Russell's concern to celebrate commercial liberalism and Free Trade, the liberal view of the advantages of ...
Hace 5 días · This matter is said to have been compromised by an agreement, that the Earl of Chester should have the honor of Lancaster in lieu, and marry one of Prince Henry's daughters . In 1149 we find the English and Scottish monarchs again in hostile array against each other, David being at Carlisle and Stephen at York; but we are told that each party being afraid of the other, they both retired ...
Hace 5 días · Although Prussia had increased in importance over the prior few decades, its disparate and scattered territories prevented it wielding significant power, a reality Frederick intended to change. The death of Emperor Charles VI on 20 October 1740 provided him with an ideal opportunity to acquire Silesia, [23] but he needed to do so before Augustus of Saxony and Poland could pre-empt him.
