A world where the US has fewer allies would be an even more dangerous place.
A ceremony to punish people for heresy, called an ‘auto da fe,’ in the town of San Bartolome Otzolotepec, in present-day Mexico.
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Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian cultures.
Kew Gardens in London was at the centre of a huge colonial plant trade.
'The world's metropolis', Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, 1855