The Americas
The explorer who discovered the Americas for Spain.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
The type of monarchies that ruled in the early modern age.
What are authoritarian monarchies?
During the modern age, these were created to lend money to traders.
What are public banks?
This king, grandson of los Reyes Católicos, created a powerful empire for Spain.
Who was Carlos I of Spain, Carlos V of the Holy Roman Empire?
After the War of Spanish Succession the Hapsburgs were replaced with this French dynasty.
Who are the Bourbons?
The three greatest civilizations in the Americas at the time the Spanish arrived.
What were the Maya, the Aztecs, and the Inca?
This machine, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, allowed books and information to be copied and shared throughout the world.
What is the printing press?
This art style was inspired by ancient art and focused on symmetry, proportion, and balance.
What is Renaissance style?
This king made Madrid the capital of the Spanish Empire.
Who was Felipe II?
The Bourbon monarchy dissolved the institutions of these regions in Spain with the Decretos de Nueva Planta.
What is Aragón, Cataluña, Valencia, and the Islas Baleares?
Three crops introduced in Europe from the Americas.
What are tomatoes, corn, and potatoes?
These two groups were considered part of “privileged society” and paid no taxes, had separate laws, and controlled most of the land.
What are the nobility and the clergy?
This man developed the laws of gravity. I saw the tree that dropped the apple on his head (or at least I was told) when I studied at Cambridge!
Who was Isaac Newton?
These people were appointed favorites of the king who governed in their name.
Who were validos?
These places of employment and production were created during the Bourbon rule in the 18th Century and were protected by the state.
What were royal factories?
The two viceroyalties of the Spanish empire in the Americas.
BONUS: Name three US states that whose name was given by the Spanish.
What were New Spain and Peru?
States: Florida, Texas, California, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Nevada. Maybe: Oregon, Utah, Arizona
This style of art from the 17th Century focused on lavish decoration and dramatic detail. Some of my favorite paintings are from this period!
What is the Baroque Style?
This period in Spain produced artists and writers such as Diego Velazquez and Miguel de Cervantes.
What was the Spanish Golden Age or the Siglo de Oro?
These were three reasons for crisis in the Spanish Empire during the 17th Century
What were bad harvests, wars, epidemics, and trade decline?
What is Museo del Prado?
Children of indigenous Americans and Spanish people.
What were mestizos?
This paradigm shift in the 18th Century led to the development in philosophy that focused on reason as the power in which humans understand the universe. Ideas such as separation of powers, equality under the law, and constitutional governance flourished during this period.
What was the Enlightenment?
This way of ruling was based on the ideas of the Enlightenment and was promoted by king Carlos III.
What was enlightened despotism?
The death of heirless Carlos II led to this conflict.
What was the War of Spanish Succession?
The institutions of these territories were kept because of their loyalty to Felipe V and the Bourbon crown during the War of Spanish Succession.
What is Navarra and País Vasco?