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BADAJOZ . In character and physical type, the people of this, region are less easily classified than those of other Spanish provinces. They lack the endurance and energy of the Galicians, the independent and enterprising spirit of the Asturians, Basques and Catalans, the culture of the Castilians and Andalusians. Their failure to develop a distinctive local type of character and civilization is perhaps due to the adverse economic history of their country. The two great
Jews and Moors (1492161 o) ,while the compensating treasure, derived during the same period from Spanish America, never reached a province so remote at once from the sea and from the chief
Cortes
Mexico
Pizarro (c. 14711541), the conqueror of Peru, were both born in Estremadura, their exploits, far from bringing prosperity to their native province, only encouraged the emigration of its best inhabitants. Heavy taxation and harsh land-laws
waste land, and rendered worse a climate already unfavourable to agriculture
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