Once upon a time in Latin Europe

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Europe is composed of several backgrounds. History, languages, values, and beliefs, each part are closely related to the other. How then may we characterize those parts? To understand Latin Europe, we have to define its past and discover where the word Latin comes from? Latin, is derived from Latinus, "belonging to Latium", the region of Italy around Rome, and possibly from stela, "to spread, extend", with a sense of "flat country", as opposed to the mountainous district of the Sabines. More than 2000 years ago, Romanian spread off Latin culture through Spain, Portugal, Italy and France. Influenced by this conquering culture, those countries had created their own Latin way of life and a worldwide empire.

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[...] Prince Henry the navigator, son of King Joao first, became the main sponsor and patron of this endeavour. In 1415, Portugal gained the first of its overseas colonies when a fleet conquered Ceuta, a prosperous Islamic trade centre in North Africa. These followed the first discoveries in the Atlantic: Madeira and Azores, which led to the first colonization movements. Throughout the 15th century, Portuguese explorers sailed the coast of Africa, establishing trading posts for slaves and gold as they looked for a rout to India. [...]

[...] The people and European constitution Conclusion During centuries, France belonged to the most powerful countries which ruled the world. It had established a real empire, known bloody revolution, participate to Renaissance movement, spread modern ideas during the highlight century and know many conflicts and worldwide wars. From now more than 50 years, a new conception of Europe had been created. A united Europe is no longer a united Empire where one country imposes its rules to the other (Romanian Empire, Holy Germanic Empire, The Empire of Napoleon 1 st,). [...]

[...] - weak on the Indian colonies. The powerful British presence had overcome the small French influenced. - remains strong in Northern and Central African countries ( Algeria, Tunisia or Morocco, Senegal, ) where people still speak French even-though they have recovered their traditional way of living. Those colonies gained their independence less than a century ago. Their way of living is still marked by more than a century of French colonization. After a 4 centuries monopoly all over the world, European civilization had known a violent decline through the two World Wars (in the first part of 20th century). [...]

[...] Then on Latin culture. Because this religion appeared with Jesus from Nazareth years ago, and was spread off in the Roman Empire. Even if some part of the territory became Arabic later, because of the Arabic conquests in Mediterranean, south of Europe stayed Catholicism. The use of Latin in the church, administration, and many other domains, was affected by renaissance ideals as well, which was fancying the Roman's way of thinking and acting. It is generally agreed that the Latin countries of Europe and America, as a group, are part of one of the world's great legal traditions. [...]

[...] They choose the name “Louisiana” as a tribute to Louis XIV, king of France from 1643-1715. As conqueror of the New World, French planned to set up sovereign, religious and commercial aims with the market of cotton, tobacco and sugar. The end of 18th century marked the end of the French dominance on the state. After loosing a part of the colony (the east of Mississippi) to the Kingdom of Great Britain in the French and Indian War, France lost the rest of Louisiana to Spain after the Seven Years' War (by the Treaty of Paris of 1763). [...]