100 — Antoni Gaudí 1 — Bad at School
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The History of Catalonia
Spain had a difficult sort of Napoleonic period and was racked by war later on in that. At the same time the country is undergoing rather unsteady but rapid economic growth, particularly in industrialization and urbanization. So cities like Barcelona are once kind of menaced by forces armies out in the hinterland periodically coming and never quite succeeding to take them. But at the other hand, enormously expanding in population and there's a great production of wealth. Big factories are being built. Urbanization means you've got to have bricks and tiles. Workers means they've got to be clothes, textiles in other parts of the country,. iron and steel, coal, steam trains, big
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