Augustin de iturbide was able to declare independence from spain while also proclaiming himself emperor in part because he came from a family of peninsulares. he had started the independence movement. that was the type of government the spanish colonists were used to. he deserved the title after his leadership in the battle for independence.

How is the career of an archaeologist different from hollywood’s portrayal of an archaeologist? how have your views on the field of archaeology changed as a result of what you have studied in this unit?

In italy, the distance between milan in the north and palermo,sicily, in the south is about 550 miles. in the united states, the distance betweenboston, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, is about 900 miles. do you think the american revolutionaries of 1776 in the 13 colonies faced some of the same challenges as the patriots who struggled for italian unity in the 1860s?  

What were four reasons for the decline of spain as a world power