Links to Unit 1 and 2 games

Here you have the direct links to the games you can play to review units 1 and 2. Click on the images below to access the different games:

UNIT 1

CHARLES I's UNIVERSAL EMPIRE

PART ONE

PART TWO

PHILIP II'S HISPANIC EMPIRE

REVIEW OF THE HISPANIC EMPIRE

CONQUEST, ADMINISTRATION AND EXPLOITATION OF THE INDIES

UNIT 2

ECONOMY IN THE 17th CENTURY

THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR

THE ENGLISH REVOLUTIONS

VOCABULARY OF POLITICS IN THE 17th CENTURY

THE HISPANIC MONARCHY IN THE 17th CENTURY

Presentation of Unit 2: the 17th century

Here you have the presentation we are using in class to study Unit 2:

A short video of the Thirty Years' War

This video summarizes the Thirty Years' War in three minutes. You can use it to review the contents we have studied today:

 

The thirty years war

Hello I’m Antonio, today in Social Sciences lesson Paqui has explained us the Thirty Years War. As luckily Benjamin wrote about it yesterday he has said to us a bit of this topic.

The Thirty Years War was a war which started in 1618, in Bohemia and finished in 1648. At first it was a war between Protestans and Catholics but France saw that supporting the Protestants could stop Habburgs hegemony. In this war the Catholics who were the full Hasburg Empire against the north countries with mayority of Protestant people and France.

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 Most of the battles took place in the Habbsburg empire. During this war the population decreased, in some places it decreased the fifty per cent. This war finished with the peace of Westphalia in 1648 which were two treaties the peace of Münster and the peace of Osnabrück. As Paqui has said this morning no one wins in wars. The main consequences of this war were the high decrease of population, the independence of the Low Countries (United Provinces of the Netherlands), the end of the Hispanic Hegemony in Europe, France became hegemonic the consolidation of the State-nations and Absolute Monarchy and the end of the religious wars in Europe.

Presentation of the 17th century

Here you have the presentation to study the 17th century:

 

21st October 2014 (Tuesday)

Hi everybody! I am Cristina. I'm sorry, I couldn't write the journal yesterday, so I am doing it now, and I apologize for that.

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Today in social sciences class Paqui has talked a little bit about the Renaissance Art projects: people who haven't finished it yet must give it to Paqui next day. Later, we have corrected what we had to summarize about the second part of the point 3 of the unit: Politics in the 17th century:

We can distinguish three main events in politics of the 17th century:

-The Thirty Years' War: the protestants and the French wanted to defy Halisburg's dynasty hegemony. It was a religious conflict, but also a fight for hegemony in Europe. the Protestant kingdoms of the north of Europe and France fought against the Catholic kingdoms of the south of Europe. The Hispanic Monarchy army conquered the city of Breda (1634), but they were defeated (1643). This meant the end of the Hispanic hegemony in Europe.

This war finished with the signature of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648:

· All the kingdomss accepted the Peace of Augsburg principles: religious

freedom (which supposed the end of religious wars)

                        · The Hispanic Monarchy lost its hegemony in Europe

                        · Consolidation of State-nations and Absolute Monarchy.

· Huge demographic losses in the Holy Roman Empire (some states lost half of their population).           

At the end of the Thirty Years’ War consequences, we’ve talked about races, and I have remembered something that Paqui said to us last week when we were reading about the Indies: “Have you ever seen “black blood?” I think it’s an interesting reflection. What do you think?

-Absolute Monarchy: Kings consolidated their authority, especially over the priviledged groups. The kings were helped by an important bureaucracy to rule. The Parliaments limited kings’ power.

The main example of absolute monarchy is Luis XIV, the Sun King, who moved the court to Versailles and imposed his authority over his subjects.

-English Revolutions: there were two different revolutions in England:

            · 1648. A civil war started because Charles I Steward tried to rule as an absolute monarch, without the control of the Parliament. One year later Charles I was decapitated and the Republic was proclaimed. Monarchy was reestablished in 1660 when Oliver Cromwell, the Protector Lord, died. The deputies limited the king’s powers with the Habeas Corpus.

            · 1689. After the definite expel of the Steward dinasty from the throne, William of Orange, the new King, swore the Bill of the Rights, which limited the king’s power and put some of his decisions under the control of the Parliament. England was the first country to have a limited monarchy, with a separation of the powers of the King (executive) and of the Parliament (legislative).

Charles I Steward 

William I of Orange

                                                                    














We have also learned some new concepts, like “to be of age” (ser mayor de edad), “conspiracy” (conspiración) and “hamlet” (aldea).