English and Spanish Superpowers

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Why did England and Spain come out as the colonial superpowers - as opposed to other colonizing nations in their era? This paper argues that the predominant historical evidence suggests that the reason for this dominance was twofold - Spanish and the English dominated the seas and the land, militarily, in the way that other European nations such as the French did not; and British and Spanish nations were both more unified.

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"Ultimately, their stronger unified cultural need to establish their dominance in another land is the most important reasons for the foothold established by the English and the Spanish in the New World. It is true that a plethora of different races, ethnic groups, nationalities, and cultures arrived on the North American soil prior to 1776, the year that America began its process of embarking upon its independence, of officially becoming the independent country of United States of America. This begs the question of why did the Spanish (and Spanish Americans) and later primarily the English (and English Americans) become the dominant ethnic groups in the New World, and not the other nations that established settlements, for instance, perchance, the Dutch?"

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