As noted in more detail in the SparkNote on the Fall of the Roman Empire‚ beginning in the middle of the 3rd century CE‚ the Roman Empire faced increasing Germanic tribe infiltration and internal political chaos. Romans set up generals as emperors‚ who were quickly deposed by rival claimants. This pattern continued until Diocletian (r. 284-305) rose to power in 285. He and Constantine (324-337) administratively reorganized the empire‚ engineering an absolute monarchy. Constantine the Great patronized
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their conquests. Conquistadors were granted trusteeship over the indigenous people they conquered‚ in an expansion of familiar medieval feudal institutions‚ notably the commendation ceremony‚ which had been established in New Castile during the Reconquista. The encomiendo system differed from the developed form of feudalism in that it did not entail any direct land tenure by the encomendero; Indian lands were to remain in their possession‚ a right that was formally protected by the Crown of Castile
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and Venetians -Tudors (why powerful?)- Edward IV Richard IIHenry VII. Used Star Chamber against nobles and Henry VII rebuilt monarchy -Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile (Inquisition why?)-Marriage created union of Spain. Completed Reconquista and Inquisition anti-Semitism -Charles V/Hapsburg- Holy Roman Emperor.1521: Habsburg-Valois WarsBattlefield was often Italy -Mirandola- Oration of the Dignity of Man -“Renaissance popes”- Became increasingly secular .Nicholas VPius II Sixtus
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The Ottoman Empire‚ or Turks‚ were the longest-lasting remnents of the Mongol Empire; the Spanish Empire re-asserted itself after the Muslim Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula and became a world power through the Age of Exploration. From 1450 to 1800‚ both the Ottoman and Spanish Empires experienced political expanision in the process of empire building‚ but unlike the Spanish‚ the Ottomans experienced diminshing growth and stagnation during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries after amassing
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1500-1800. Vol. 15 issue 1. 2000. Wallbank‚ Walter T‚ Alastair M. Taylor‚ Nels M. Bailkey‚ Clyde J. Lewis‚ Palmira Brummett. Civilizations Past and Present. Twelfth Edition. Volume 2. Pearson Education 2008. Spain: Ferdinand and Isabella and the Reconquista‚ The Iberian Age. Print.
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Spanish people and the different political parties. There was a difference in levels of industrialization and agricultural methods amongst the country. According to Anthony Beevor‚ a British historian‚ “The genesis of the conflict lays in the way the Reconquista of Spain from the Moors had shaped the social structure of the country and the attitudes of the Castilian conquerors.” Meaning‚ that the division in Spain had begun to embrace since the time of the Moors migration to Spain. Additionally‚ the division
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Ethnic groups in the Philippines 1. The Aeta or Agta‚ are an indigenous people who live in scattered‚ isolated mountainous parts of Luzon‚Philippines. They are considered to be Negritos‚ who are dark to very dark brown-skinned and tend to have features such as a small stature‚ small frame‚ curly to kinky afro-like textured hair with a higher frequency of naturally lighter hair color (blondism) relative to the general population‚ small nose‚ and dark brown eyes. They are thought to be among
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sympathizers in The Spanish monarchs Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. They aimed to obtain the same fate‚ along with the opportunity to expand Catholicism to lands across the globe. After conquering the only area that had resisted the Reconquista‚ the campaign that aimed to expulse the Arabs out of the Peninsula in the 1200’s‚ the first Catholic Monarchs wanted to become a world potency. Upon arriving and seeing with his own eyes the first group of inhabitants of the New World‚ Columbus
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Crusades in the early Middle Ages‚ and the spirit of spreading Christianity didn’t die out. Instead‚ it changed to focus on the Muslims in Spain (finally thrown out of Granada by the Spanish Catholic Kings in 1492‚ that year marking the end of the Reconquista)‚ as well as on the different tribes in Africa and new cultures in the Americas. Religion took on an important role as several monarchs encouraged and sponsored exploration‚ many maintaining they did so for Christianity‚ even if wealth was their
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1325-1349 - travels of Ibn Battuta 1347-1348 - Bubonic plague in Europe 1433 - end of Zheng He’s voyages/Rise of Ottomans 1450-1750 1453 - Ottomans capture Constantinople 1488 - Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope 1492 - Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain 1502 - Slaves to Americas 1517 - Martin Luther/95 theses 1521- Cortez conquered the Aztecs 1533- Pizarro toppled the Inca 1571 - Battle of Lepanto‚ (naval defeat of Ottomans) 1588 - defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British 1600 - Battle
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