unit 7 and 8 vocabulary

Unit 7
Marco Polo´:he was the person what shown the existence of india,japan and china.

Technical advances:in the 15 century were tecnical advances they were the portulan charts, navigational instruments and ships such as caravels

Portulan Charts:they showned the coastline and any obstacles at sea.

Compass:was one of the instruments what was developed in this century.

astrolabe:was one of the instruments what was developed in this century.

Quadrant:was one of the instruments what was developed in this century.

Caravels: they were one of the ships what was developed and it could travel longer distances.

Prince Henry the Navigator:was a portuguese monarch what organised various expeditions.

Bartolomeu Dias:he rounded the cape of good hope at the southern tip of africa, opening the sea route to indian ocean in 1488.

Vasco de Gama:he reached india in 1498.

Christopher Columbus:was a genoese sailor what find the new continent but he think that he arrive to india.

Ferdinand Magallan:he was the captain of one expedition what his goal was find a passage between the atlantic and pacific.

Juan Sebastian Elcano :he was the second comand in the expedition of ferdinand magellan and after the captain in the expedition.

Overseas empires:spain and portugal were overseas empires they prevent the problems teh two countries , unexplored regions were divided.

Treaty of Tordesillas: portugal and spain divided the territories unexplored with the treaty of tordesillas.

Indigenous population of America:when the europeans went to america they cause a dramatic decline to the indigenous population of america.


unit 8
The plague:was the most terrible event in europe it kill a quarter of the population of eurpe

The Black Death:was one epidemic it is the same of the plague.

Bourgueoisie :also they were very influential. it made up of rich and powerful merchants.

bureaucracy:the monarch created it, it was a profesional and centralised administration, which depended directly on the monarch-

army: the monarch created one and the monarch pay it to orde it to attack etc...

diplomatic:was created for the monarch it is a system to maintain relations with other countries.

autoritarian monarchies:they born and the king resident dont move as it had done in the middle ages.

Ivan the Great:he unified russia and became king.

Henry VIII:he was the king of england and he increased the royal power.

Charles VII:was on of the french monarch what consilidated their power.

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Catholic Monarchs :they were isabel and ferdinand and they governed their territories togeder.

Holy brotherhood :the catholic monarch created it and it was a judicial police force.

Royal Council:the catholic monarch reorganised justice and strengthened the royal council , the highest judicial body.

Corregidores:the catholic monarchs appointed corregidores , to estabilish royal authority in the towns

Treasury:the catholic monarch strengthed the royal treasury and took privileges away from the nobles.

Tribunal of the Inquisition:it prosecute heretics.

conversos:were persecuted by the inquitsition.

Mudejares:they were spanish muslims.

Moriscos: they were muslims covered to the cristianity

¿no encuentro los deberes del cid?

la mesta

Yo pienso que la asociacion de la mesta es buena porque :

1ºPor que le dan mucha poder al pais.

2ºPor que las rutas de la transumancia unen las ciudades de todo el pais.

3ºPor que se benefician de la gran calidad de la lana de las ovejas.

4ºPor que aumentó mucho el comercio gracias a la lana y la carne de las ovejas.

5ºPor que la artesania aumentó mucho por la lana de las ovejas que hizo que se hicieran todo

tipo de prendas con esta lana de gran calidad.

Por otra parte no beneficia mucho por que las ovejas "destruyen" los campos y las cosechas de los agricultores y esto crea una gran disminución de este campo.