Why did the first battles of the Spanish-American war take place where
they did?

The immediate cause of the Spanish-American War was Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain. The mysterious destruction of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana's harbour on February 15, 1898, led to a declaration of war against Spain two months later

Explanation:

it is the dominance of   the spanish language and roman catholic region in mexico, french being the official language of several african countries, and the existence of a western-style government in south asian countries

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.