Haciendas in Hispanic America functioned as large land holdings that cultivated monocultures and used slave labor. By Me. Cláudio FernandesIn addition to the metal exploration system that characterized the beginning of the Spanish colonization in America, whose main models were the divisions and t
We understand by gypsies a group of people who are nomads, divided into clans that roamed Europe. Gypsies are far from constituting a single and homogeneous people, and are divided into several ethnic groups. They are also known as “Romi” and throughout Western history they were marginalized becaus
Belgiums role in World War II was not particularly brilliant. Relying on a policy of neutrality, its army was outdated and poorly equipped, so when it finally mobilized under international pressure it could only hold out against the Wehrmacht for eighteen days before capitulating. Even what was cons
Pl. berserker. [Who wears a] bear “shirt”, exact synonym of ûfhedinn:[who wears] wolf fur. Snorri Sturluson who sees in ber an idea of nudity and concludes that the berserkir went shirtless is probably wrong. Warriors. The berserkir are those wild or furious warriors who, under certain circums