Tuesday, 19th January 2016

Hi mates! It's Irene! Let's see what we' ve studied today in class,

Paqui has explained us about the following project that we have to do; we must do 4 videos including 5 questions in each one (6 in case of the last topic). This work is really too easy, we just have to explain the main topic helping with drawings about it. Te main topics are:

-Congress of Vienna
-Revolutionary ideologies
-1820, 1830, 1848 Revolution
-Unification of Italy and Germany (this video must include 6 questions, 3 about Italy and 3 about Germany)


DEADLINE-> 15th FEBRUARY

We can use websites like "Educanon" or programmes like "Windows Movie Maker "to edit our videos.
Here you have some ideas of videos:

Syria's War in 5 minutes: you can use maps and color them
The French revolution: Stop Motion is creative but harder
Enligthtened thinker's: this video is just what Paqui wants

or you can use images from Google, record the process drawing your pictures or use gifs! Good luck!


After the project we have started with second point of the unit, the Congress of Vienna.
We have studied the people who participated in the Congress of Viena, the decisions of the Congress, the main changes of the map of Europe and we have compared the differences between Europe during Napoleonic Empire and Europe after the Congress; we have copied the structure of this new scheme and we have to complete it for homework

                               CHRONOLOGY-> 1814-1815
                                       

CONGRESS OF   WHO PARTICIPATED?-> Talleyrand
    VIENNA                                                           Duke of Wellington
  (1814-1815)                                                         Gómez de Labrador                
                                     

                               MAIN PROBLEMS-> Hundred Years Empire
                                                                       Solution: Battle of Waterloo

                                                                       
                                                                          Restoration of absolutism
                               MAIN DECISIONS-> Reorganization of the map of Europe* -France
                                                                                                                                 came back                                                                                                                                                  to its bordies in 1791
                                                                                                                                -Two buffer states

                                                                          Creation of the Holly Alliance to stop revolution


                               CONSEQUENCES


* we have just studied these two points

                                             Europe during Napoleonic Empire

                                       
                                             Europe in 1789

VOCABULARY

SCROOGE- tacaño
BUFFER STATE- estado tapón
RHINELAND- Renania
SAXONY- Sajonia
EDIT- editar

Monday, 2nd November 2015

Hi, mates, I'm Irene, let's see what we' ve studied today in class:

First, we' ve reviewed about what did we studied last day in class, Ancien Régime and we have drawn this pyramid:

It's about the Ancien Régime society and explains the differences between the three estates: Nobility (divided into high and low) had lands and rents and they charged taxes to peasants; Clergy (divided into high: cardinals and bishops, and low: divided into monks and priests) had also land and charged the tithe; and finally the Third Estate (which included peasants, bougeois, servants, manual workers, merchants and craftsmen), formed by 90% of population, they worked to survive, paid taxes, didn't have participation in politics and didn't have rights.

Then, we have continued with the scheme but we have studied Changes in production: peasants continued using fallow technique and that was the reason for low production. Peasants had to pay taxes and the tithe to the privileged people, 10% of their production was destined to clergy. Guilds controlled production.

After that we've seen the Power Pyramid and what the French revolutionaries wanted to obtain:

-representative government, elected by citizens

                              - a society based on equality of all the citizens, without priviledges

                                              -a productive economy, where those who had initiative could make business without limitations

Power Pyramid in Ancien Règime

Finally, we have started with Enlightenment which was an intellectual movement during 18th century in Europe which questioned all Ancien Règime principles and was based on Reason. We have copied this in class about Enlightenment:

     -15th-16th century: HUMANISM-> human being, center of interest and reduction of the influence of religion

    -17th century: SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION-> Rationalism and Empiricism. It was a reason and experience where the best mean to learn

        -18th century: ENLIGHTENMENT-> use of Reason (intelligence) to learn, understand the world and improve it

Remember, for homework we must do a scheme about Enlightenment in which we have to include definition of Enlightenment and its features.

-Glossary
  Rents-> rentas
  Gallicanism-> Galicanismo
  Fallow-> barbecho
  Drought-> sequía
  Double-> duplicar, doblar
  Claim-> reivindicar
  Culmination-> culminación
  Enlightened-> ilustrado
  Elitist-> elitista

See you tomorrow!

This day in history: Martin Luther and the 95 Wittenberg Theses: beggining of Lutheranism and Protestant Reformation

Hi mates! Do you remember two years ago when we studied Lutheranism and the Protestant Reformation?
Well, today, but 498 years ago, Martin Luther pinned the 95 Theses on the doors of the Wittenberg Church as a protest of what the Dominicans were doing.
One of the things which the Dominicans did to collect money to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica, in Rome, was selling indulgences to the sinners in order to eliminate their sins; the unique incentive of Luther to write the '95 Theses' was to observe how the Dominicans abused of the people.

In the '95 Theses' he rejected the intermediaries between people and God, and expressed his opinion about the equality of the people to God, the unique who could saved or absolve our sins. The Clergy and the court tried to avoid the spreading of the '95 Theses' but they were copied and diffused before it..
In 1521 the Protestant Reformation started when Luther rejected to recant 41 of his thesis


This link will redirect you to Martin Luther's page, where you could found the 95 Theses, and I invite you to watch the film about this,'Luther' it's very interesting and entertaining and you will be able to understand better all this information.

See you!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninety-Five_Theses
A replica of the 95 Theses, in Wittenberg                                                     

http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/l/lutero.htm
Martin Luther's portrait