Question: New Spain () was a colonial territory of the Spanish Empire in the New World north of the Isthmus of Panama. It was established following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521, and following additional conquests, it was made a viceroyalty (Spanish: "virreinato") in 1535. The first of four viceroyalties Spain created in the Americas, it comprised Mexico, Central America, much of the Southwestern and Central United States, and Spanish Florida as well as the Philippines, Guam, Mariana and Caroline Islands.

After 1535 the colony was governed by the Viceroy of New Spain, an appointed minister of the King of Spain, who ruled as monarch over the colony from its capital, Mexico City. New Spain lost parts of its territory to other European powers and independence, but the core area remained under Spanish control until 1821, when it achieved independence as the Mexican Empire when the latter dissolved, it became modern Mexico and Central America.

New Spain developed highly regional divisions, reflecting the impact of climate, topography, the presence or absence of dense indigenous populations, and the presence or absence of mineral resources. The areas of central and southern Mexico had dense indigenous populations with complex social, political, and economic organization. The northern area of Mexico, a region of nomadic and semi-nomadic indigenous populations, was not generally conducive to dense settlements, but the discovery of silver in Zacatecas in the 1540s drew settlement there to exploit the mines. Silver mining not only became the engine of the economy of New Spain, but vastly enriched Spain and transformed the global economy. New Spain was the New World terminus of the Philippine trade, making the viceroyalty a vital link between Spain's New World empire and its Asian empire. 1. Did the northern area of Mexico have a small population?
2. Did the Southern and central area of Mexico have a complex social and economic
3. Did the central and southern areas of Mexico have a small population?
4. Did the Northern area of Mexico have many cities and settlements?
5. What mineral was found there?
6. When?
7. Where specifically?
8. Who controlled New Spain beginning in 1521?
9. How many centuries did they retain control for?
10. Was the land in New Spain similar throughout the whole area?
11. What person appointed the Viceroy of New Spain in 1535?
12. Where did the Viceroy of New Spain rule from?
13. Was this the capital?
14. The region that became the Mexican empire in 1821, became what when it was later dissolved? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. yes
2. yes
3. no
4. no
5. silver
6. in the 1540s
7. Zacatecas
8. the Spanish
9. three
10. no
11. the King of Spain
12. Mexico City
13. yes
14. Mexico and Central America

Question: CHAPTER XXV.

THE BANKER AND HIS DAUGHTER.

Tom and Elsley are safe at Whitbury at last; and Tom, ere he has seen his father, has packed Elsley safe away in lodgings with an old dame whom he can trust. Then he asks his way to his father's new abode; a small old-fashioned house, with low bay windows jutting out upon the narrow pavement.

Tom stops, and looks in the window. His father is sitting close to it, in his arm-chair, his hands upon his knees, his face lifted to the sunlight, with chin slightly outstretched, and his pale eyes feeling for the light. The expression would have been painful, but for its perfect sweetness and resignation. His countenance is not, perhaps, a strong one; but its delicacy, and calm, and the high forehead, and the long white locks, are most venerable. With a blind man's exquisite sense, he feels Tom's shadow fall on him, and starts, and calls him by name; for he has been expecting him, and thinking of nothing else all the morning, and takes for granted that it must be he.

In another moment Tom is at his father's side. What need to describe the sacred joy of those first few minutes, even if it were possible? But unrestrained tenderness between man and man, rare as it is, and, as it were, unaccustomed to itself, has no passionate fluency, no metaphor or poetry, such as man pours out to woman, and woman again to man. All its language lies in the tones, the looks, the little half-concealed gestures, hints which pass themselves off modestly in jest; and such was Tom's first interview with his father; till the old Isaac, having felt Tom's head and hands again and again, to be sure whether it were his very son or no, made him sit down by him, holding him still fast, and began-- 1. could his father see?
2. what was his dad sitting on?
3. Who is safe?
4. and?
5. where are they?
6. Who did he leave Elsey with?
7. Does his father have short hair?
8. What color is it?
9. How does he know Tom is there?
10. he is blind, so how does he sense Tom?
11. what is he sitting next to?
12. did Tom know where his dad's house is?
13. does his father live in a big home?
14. please describe it.
15. what is his dad's name?
16. how does he make sure it's his child?
17. does he trust the person he left Else with?
18. Is it possible to explain the happiness felt?
19. what kind of windows does the house have?
20. can the relationship be compare to a man to woman relationship? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. No.
2. His arm-chair.
3. Elsley.
4. Tom.
5. Whitbury.
6. An old dame.
7. No.
8. White.
9. He has been expecting him.
10. He feels Tom's shadow fall on him.
11. The window.
12. No.
13. No.
14. Small old-fashioned house.
15. Isaac.
16. Felt Tom's head and hands again and again.
17. Yes.
18. No.
19. Low bay windows.
20. No.

Question: (CNN) -- A former campaign staffer for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner became the second woman to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment, saying Tuesday that the then-congressman patted her "posterior" while at a fundraising event.

Laura Fink, who now runs a political consulting firm, told KPBS-TV that it happened in 2005 when she was working as Filner's deputy campaign manager.

Fink said she didn't go public with the incident at the time because she was trying to build her political career. But she said she now feels emboldened to tell her story after Filner's former spokeswoman, Irene McCormack Jackson, sued him for sexual harassment Monday.

Jackson said Filner subjected her and other women to "crude and disgusting" comments and inappropriate touching. She said she resigned as Filner's communications director in June after deciding the mayor would not change his behavior.

"I had to work and do my job in an atmosphere where women were viewed by Mayor Filner as sexual objects or stupid idiots," Jackson said. She said Filner asked her to work without underwear and made repeated sexual advances toward her.

"He is not fit to be mayor of our great city. He is not fit to hold any public office. A man who lacks character makes a mockery of his ideas," she said.

Fink told KPBS on Tuesday that the incident happened as she was escorting Filner from table to table at a fundraising dinner. At one point, she said, someone at the event told Filner that Fink had "worked her ass off" for him. 1. who was accused of something?
2. what is his title
3. of which town?
4. who accused him?
5. what was she named?
6. what is her current position?
7. when did the misdeed happen?
8. what was her position when it occurred?
9. what was the transgression?
10. is she the first lady to accuse him of unwanted attention?
11. who was the first?
12. what was her position at the time of the offence?
13. what charges did she bring?
14. what were the offences in this case?
15. only her?
16. who else?
17. was commenting his only offence in this case?
18. what other wrong doing was noted?
19. was anything specific noted in this case?
20. what? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Bob Filner
2. Mayor
3. San Diego
4. A former campaign staffer
5. Laura Fink
6. she runs a political consulting firm
7. in 2005
8. she was Filner's deputy campaign manager
9. he patted her "posterior"
10. No
11. Irene McCormack Jackson
12. Filner's spokeswoman,
13. she sued him for sexual harassment
14. Jackson said Filner subjected her to "crude and disgusting" comments
15. No
16. other women
17. No
18. inappropriate touching
19. Yes
20. Filner asked her to work without underwear