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The encomienda system played a major role in helping Spain expand its colonies in the New World. In spite of this, why was it a failure, and abolished

The Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise was reached during the US Constitutional Convention of 1787. But what did this compromise accomplish?

Enlisted with menial tasks in a household, a scullery maid led a life of servitude and drudgery. Historyplex gives further information on the life and

Dragons hold a great deal of importance and significance in various cultures of the world, with their names being mentioned in quite a lot of

From writing to a system of time and mathematics, the world owes a lot to the numerous discoveries made by the ancient Sumerians. In this article, we

The Crimean War was fought on the Crimean peninsula along the northern coast of the Black Sea. The belligerents in this war were Russia on one side

Historians are divided over why the United States entered WW1 in 1917 after having stayed neutral for nearly three years. We will see what prompted

To protect government documents, information from getting into wrong hands during World War I, a historic act passed by the U.S. government which was

The debt peonage system forced laborers to work as 'peons' until their debts were paid off. Many were often oppressed, and were offered minimal or no