Social Sciences
- Tuesday 19th November 2015
Hi everybody!! Today in social sciences we reviewed what we studied the previous class about the Spanish Succession War. We reviewed about the development of the war and when the Emperor of Austia died, the Archduke Charles became Emperor....
- This Day In History: Charles V's Abdications
Hello I'm María, today I'm going to explain Charles abdications and later life. Today but 450 years ago Charles V abdicated his German possessions and the title of emperor on his brother Ferdinand. Charles abdicated the parts of his empire...
- This Day In History: Charles I's Coronation And The End Of The Revolt Of The Comuneros
Hey friends! It's Lucía. Today is my turn to explain what happened years and years ago. Yes! This is a new chapter of... THIS DAY IN HISTORY! And as you have seen in the title, today we have double event. FIRST EVENT: CHARLES I'S CORONATION....
- This Day In History: Elizabeth Of France's Death
I'm inaugurating a new section on the blog called "This day in history". It consists of explaining some historical events happened on a specific date in the past. You can contribute with your own events, but respecting some rules: the events you elect...
- 21st September
Hello, I'm Andrei. Today has been the third day of class of Social Sciences. At the beginning of the lesson Paqui has drawn us a Family Tree of the Catholic Monarchs. The Catholic Monarchs had 5 children and the names of their children were: Isabella,...
Social Sciences
16th November
Hi everyone. It?s Lorena. I?m going to talk about what we have seen in today?s lesson. At the beginning we were a little bit nervous about the incident of Paris. Paqui said that if we had time, we?d talk about it at the end of the lesson, so that?s what we?ve done, but first I prefer to focus on the content of the unit that we?ve seen today.
As always, we?ve started reviewing the content of the last lesson. We have reviewed the USA independence, the ten amendments and the constitution, the date of its creation, which was not in 1776, but in 1787 (we confuse it with the signature of the Declaration of Independence), the organization of the USA (federal states), etc. I think it?s clear, but reviews are never bad for us.
Source: http://www.scottsvalley.org/images/July4.jpg
Source: http://www.archives.gov/espanol/images/constitucion-partial-es-large.jpg
When we finish the review, we started with point 4 of the unit: Spain in the 18thcentury. While Paqui was explaining the points of the history in this part of the history, she was writing everything in the blackboard. It was a kind of skin, but with more content than a brief summary.
Everything started because Charles II didn?t have any successor. It doesn?t surprise me due to the bad health of him. Anyway? In his testament, he wrote down the people he wanted to be the king of all the Empire. The first one was Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, but he died, Philip of Anjou was chosen to reign. He was a French prince; Louis XIV?s grandson. The Habsburgs didn?t like the idea. They had an alternative to change Philip for Archduke Charles of Austria, but when Charles II died, the Bourbon acceded to the throne. Great Britain, Austria, Portugal and the Low Countries didn?t like the idea. In the Peninsula, Aragon wasn?t either happy with all this, so for that the war of Spanish succession started in 1700. People from Aragon were scared because they didn?t want Absolutism.
Archduke Charles
Source: http://www.laalcazaba.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Archiduque-Carlos-Palacio-Real-mMdrid.jpg
Philip V
Source: http://quhist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/felipe-v.jpg
Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria
Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/JosephFerdinand.jpg
Louis XIV
Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg
In 1707 the Aragonese were defeated by the troops of Philip V in the battle of Almansa, and they occupied Valencia and Aragón. Great Britain occupied Gibraltar and Minorca.
In 1713, the Archduke became the emperor of Austria, so for that the alliances of him started thinking. They didn?t want absolutism, but if the Archduke won, this is what they were going to have. They ended the war with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
The Battle of Almansa
Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Ligli-Batalla_de_Almansa.jpg
Treaty of Utrecht
Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/The_Treaty_of_Utrecht.jpg
Philip V became the king of the Hispanic Monarchy, although some territories of the Empire were distributed among Austria and Savoy. Flanders, Luxembourg, part of Milan, Naples and Sardinia became Austrian territories, and Savoy received Sicily and part of Milan.
Great Britain kept the territories it took and they also broke the Castilian monopoly in the Indies. Due to this, they could sell black slaves there and also their products.
Source: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wggerman/map/images/treatyofutrecht.jpg
The war ended on the 11th September, 1714, when Philip V?s troops finished bombarding Barcelona.
This was everything we studied. After the explanation, we started a conversation about ISIS, the reaction of France towards the Jihadists attacks, people?s opinion, etc.
I agree with Paqui. I really like the way she explains her view points, perhaps because they?re the same as mines. In my modest opinion, I think all this is going to end up in the same place as every war finish. It?s sad how people act and it?s even sadder how they think about this: they think that every single Muslim acts in that way, and they offend people with no fault just because they?re not educated and they have no information. The trouble with this is that people with close minds have their mouths open. We all try to blame someone when all this is due to everybody, and I don?t know how long this going to last is. The only thing I know is that if this continues like this, we all are going to be death. Sooner or later.
- Tuesday 19th November 2015
Hi everybody!! Today in social sciences we reviewed what we studied the previous class about the Spanish Succession War. We reviewed about the development of the war and when the Emperor of Austia died, the Archduke Charles became Emperor....
- This Day In History: Charles V's Abdications
Hello I'm María, today I'm going to explain Charles abdications and later life. Today but 450 years ago Charles V abdicated his German possessions and the title of emperor on his brother Ferdinand. Charles abdicated the parts of his empire...
- This Day In History: Charles I's Coronation And The End Of The Revolt Of The Comuneros
Hey friends! It's Lucía. Today is my turn to explain what happened years and years ago. Yes! This is a new chapter of... THIS DAY IN HISTORY! And as you have seen in the title, today we have double event. FIRST EVENT: CHARLES I'S CORONATION....
- This Day In History: Elizabeth Of France's Death
I'm inaugurating a new section on the blog called "This day in history". It consists of explaining some historical events happened on a specific date in the past. You can contribute with your own events, but respecting some rules: the events you elect...
- 21st September
Hello, I'm Andrei. Today has been the third day of class of Social Sciences. At the beginning of the lesson Paqui has drawn us a Family Tree of the Catholic Monarchs. The Catholic Monarchs had 5 children and the names of their children were: Isabella,...