Compare and contrast northern and southern europe to the northern and southern united states

1) Catholicism/Protestantism, 2)  Slavery, 3) romanization, 4) influence of Arabian culture, 5) Africanization.

1) Northern Europe is Prostestant (different kinds of protestantism) since the 16th century whereas Southern Europe is Catholic (some parts are orthodox like Serbia or Greece, some parts are Muslim like Bosnia). This polarity does not exist in the USA (neither in the north nor in the south).

2) American South has a tradition of slavery which has still its reverberations today. It does not exist in European south.

3) southern Europe before being Christanized was Romanized which was very important for introduction of Middle Ages and Christianity later on. In northern Europe there was no Romanization, so Christianity was introduced to Pagan cultures. This contrast between the North and the South does not exist in the USA.

4) south of Europe was under influence of Arabian civilization (Iberian peninsula: both Spain and Portugal, the Balcans: Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria  were Arabized for many centuries; south of Italy: Sicily at least) traces of which are still visible. It does not exist in the USA.

5) American south was partly Africanized because of the slavery during the 18th and 19th century. It does not exist in European south.

answer; the correct answer is ( north and west );

there's multiple reasons why the conquistadors were so successful in colonizing central america, and some of them are:

- they were seen as gods;

at the beginning, the spanish settlers were seen by the natives as gods, and this was mainly due to their white skin, and the way they came with their boats.

- possessed superior weaponry;

the spanish had gunpowder and guns, as well as cannons, while the natives did not had any fire weapons.

- made cleaver alliances;

they used the situation of tribes hating each other, so they made alliances with some of them which served them very well.

- brought diseases;

the native people were not immune to certain diseases the europeans brought with them, so they were dying from seeming harmless things for european standards.