"Situated in the extreme southwest corner of Europe, Portugal occupies roughly one-sixth of the Iberian Peninsula with a population of just over 10 million."
Sayfa 14 - Avrupa'nın en güneybatı köşesinde yer alan Portekiz, İber Yarımadası'nın yaklaşık altıda birini kaplamakta ve 10 milyondan biraz fazla nüfusa sahiptir.·Kitabı okuyor
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"Occupying the southernmost tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece divides into over 2,000 islands stretching from the Ionian Sea in the west to the Aegean Sea in the east."
Sayfa 14 - Balkan yarımadasının en güney ucunda yer alan Yunanistan, batıda İyon Denizi'nden doğuda Ege Denizi'ne kadar uzanan 2.000'den fazla adaya bölünmüştür.·Kitabı okudu
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In a famous debate held at Valladolid on the Yucatan Peninsula in 1550, Las Casas argued for the equality and freedom of the Native Americans. The only way to convert them, he said, was by peaceful preaching of the Word and by the example of holy living. His opponent was a theologian, Juan Gines de Sepulveda, who used Aristotle’s argument that certain peoples are by nature born to slavery. “The Spanish,” he said, “are as much above the Indians as man is above the ape.” So despite Las Casas’s best effort, Christian imperialism and slavery continued in the New World.
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In the winter of 1847, Protestant liberals in Switzerland had fought – and won – a civil war against the conservative Catholic cantons. The result was a new Swiss federal state with a liberal constitution. Then, on 12 January 1848, after reports of unrest in the Italian peninsula, came the news that insurgents had seized power in Palermo. Two weeks later, the success of the Palermitan revolution was confirmed when the King of Naples became the first Italian monarch to offer his people a constitution.
Now that Lorenzo the Magnificent was gone, there was no one to maintain the balance of power in the Italian peninsula. The new King of Naples, Alfonso II, allied himself with the new pope, Alexander VI. Ludovico Sforza of Milan saw this as a threat, and invited Charles VIII of France to protect him. Charles VIII had for some time laid claim to the throne of Naples; acting on the pretext of Ludovico’s invitation, he set forth with the largest army in Europe and crossed the Alps into Italy to take possession of the Kingdom of Naples, sweeping aside all that lay in his path. Even Ludovico Sforza would eventually lose Milan to the French. Here surely was the ‘new Cyrus’ who Savonarola had prophesied ‘would come from across the mountains bringing death and destruction in his wake’.
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