INTRODUCTION TO HISTORY AND CULTURE OF SPAIN
 
Iberia Overseas:  Pioneers in the Age of Expansion

 
Reformation
Charles V
Philip II
European Age of Expansion
Iberia
Lisbon
Sagres
Ceuta (1415)
Henry the Navigator
Lagos
Cape Bojador
Green Sea of Darkness
Caravel
“Black Gold”
Arguim Island
Factory
Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde Islands
Madeira Wines
Mercantilism
John II
Malaguette Pepper
Cape of Storms
Cape of Good Hope
Vasco da Gama
Ibn Jahid
Diu (1509)
Viceroy
Alfonse de Alburquerque
Hormuz
Goa
Strait of Malacca
Macao
Trading Empire vrs. Settlement Empire
Castile, Aragon, Portugal
Reconquista
Canary Islands
Christopher Columbus
Genoa
Enterprise of the Indies
Ptolemy
Marco Polo
Niña, Pinta, Santa Maria
Amerigo Vespucci
Medici Ban
The Introduction to Cosmography
America
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Isthmus of Panama
Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan
Straits of Magellan
Scurvy
Sebastian del Cano
Sir Francis Drake
Inter Caetera (1493)
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
Cabral (1500)
Brazil
Leo X (1513-1521)
Treaty of Zaragosa (1529)
Conquistadores
Hernán Cortes
Francisco and Gonzalo Pizarro
Aztec Empire (Mexico)
Inca Empire (Peru, Equador, Bolivia, Chile)
Quetzcoatl
Noche Triste
Smallpox
Council of the Indies
Casa de Contratación (House of Trade)
Viceroy
Viceroyalty
Audiencia
Peninsulares vrs. Creoles
Cabildo
Mestizos
Mulattos
“the Black Legend”
Bartolome de las Casas
Role of the English

 

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