Granada

The Granada War took place in Spain around the Iberian Peninsula. The war itself was one of the first to use cannon warfare to their advantage. As a result of this war, all of the Islamic Rule was eliminated and gave Christianity power across the Iberian Peninsula region. These battles also gave birth to an entire genre that is called romances fronterizos. There were many things that this war inspired for years to come. This essay is going to talk about the lasting effects of the Spanish and their choices that eventually lead to them controlling the area. Let's blast right into it. The Iberian Peninsula is a region located at the southern part of Spain. It is a point of great contest because it has a few things. One, it was the center for…

Peyton Feuer ARHS 1010-03 Lucia Abramovich March 23, 2018 Court of the Lions Towering over the city of Granada, Spain, sits what is left of the Alhambra, a palace left over from the Nasrid dynasty in Islamic Spain. The palace is built like many Islamic palaces in that each of its pavilions and small buildings surrounded one or more central courtyards, the most famous of which being the Court of the Lions. The Court of the Lions is follows the style of the Alhambra itself in that it is…

just adopted the genre and gave it their own touch. This paper will not only answer the questions that were mentioned earlier, but will evidence that the gypsies, along with the Jews and the Moors, gave birth to flamenco. Not much is known as to where Flamenco originated from; although some historians define their written work as “approximate” or “uncertain,” because so little about the history of the art form has been written down. Moreover, surviving elders in the tradition have kept the…

In the letter Lope de Aguirre: Letter from to King Phillip of Spain, 1561, Lope filled the letter with hate. He demanded justice claiming that he and his people will “no longer tolerate the great oppression and unjust punishments” that they were forced to endure under the leadership of corrupt politicians and an unjust and reckless ruler. Lope states that the king’s sole concern is only of himself and not about the people under his leadership who worked themselves to the bone and foght for his…

For whom, colonization was “not a goal for almost a century, and even then their colonies were designed primarily to provide a quick return on investment, not to transplant Europeans onto foreign soil.” King and Queen Isabella of Spain saw opportunity, even when their original intentions were to find land in Asia, they planned colonization. This is evident in the document, “Granada Capitulations,” as it states: “Because, you Christopher Columbus, are going at our command with some of our ships…

A few years ago, I traveled to Granada, Nicaragua to do humanitarian work. At the end of the week, the team and I decided to venture out to one Nicaragua's active volcanoes, as it near where we were staying. Once we arrived at the national park, the tour guide happily greeted us and advised that if we needed food, water, or to go to the restroom, we should do so before the hike began. 5 minutes later, I found myself jerking the handle on the bathroom door in a futile attempt to get it open and…

He then made captured Muslims carry the bells, stolen by Al-Mansur two centuries earlier, back to the cathedral in Santiago. The ruler of Granada, Mohammed ibn-Alhamar, saw what was happening and approached Fernando to propose that in return for cooperating in the conquest of Muslim Seville, Granada would be granted independence as a subject of Castile. Fernando agreed and took Seville. On returning to Granada the embarrassed ibn-Alhamar announced “there is no victor but Allah” which can be…

Colombia, formally known as New Granada, was conquered during the Spanish Conquest in the early 1500’s. It is divided into 32 departamentos or states, and one Distrito Capital. Geographically, three mountain ranges and two major rivers divide the country into four regions. How was the region colonized? Colonization in Latin America began with the founding of San Sebastian near Panama in 1510. In 1526, settlers founded Santa Marta, the oldest Spanish city still in existence in Colombia. New…

Introduction José Celestino Mutis (1732-1808) is mostly known for his work as Director of the Royal Botanical Expedition to the New Kingdom of Granada. Established in 1783, the Botanical Expedition had the purpose of carrying out a complete natural history of Spain’s «equinoctial» territories in America. Thereby, Mutis led the project of gathering a vast collection of flora and fauna specimens, and of illustrating them, for both theoretical and practical purposes. Likewise, the Botanical…

When your freedom is thievery stolen from your own home country, nothing feels like home anymore. Khaled Hosseini is an Afghani-American novelist born in Afghanistan. Living in Afghanistan he had said that he grew up in a very peaceful place which made the author get the inspiration to write most of his stories settings in Afghanistan. One of his stories that had been drawn to the reader’s attention was “The Kite Runner’’. Radwa Ashour is an Egyptian author born in Cairo. Many of her writings…