Iberian Peninsula

When investigating my question, what were the politics that started the First Crusades, I had to narrow my attention towards four central instigators, because a general agreement among historians- in the resources I utilized- occurred around these four vital reasons that started the war. The reasons behind the timing of the First Crusades are these major points: Islamic encroachment into the Byzantium Empire, past treatment of Christians in the Middle East, Christian duty, and Islamic disunity.…

Tolerance is the ability to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with. Intolerance, on the other hand, is the unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one’s own. Robert Green Ingersoll once said, “Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.” But is that possible? Can we humans reach a point where we respect everybody? Will we ever reach complete tolerance or will we be stuck…

search of religious, political, and economic freedoms the vast American continent had to offer. With Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the year 1492, shortly after the Reconquista successfully vanquished and removed the Islamic Moors in the Iberian peninsula, the stage was set for newly discovered Western lands, thought to be Asia, to be converted to Catholicism and its riches plunged and purged, if not exploited,…

to relate them, not believing myself, since perhaps I might have dreamt them.” Although he treated his slaves well, he only set them free in 1514, after being encouraged by other Dominican Friars and his own Easter sermon. He returned to the Iberian Peninsula and, for the following six years, legally campaigned for the rights of the indigenous peoples of Latin…

Latin American Revolution By: Prabjot Singh, Dericka Rickenbacker, Florence Allison, and Brandon Prophete Aim: How did the Latin American Revolution occur? Objective:Students will be able to explain what led to the Latin American Revolution. Standards:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.2 Do Now: What would you start a revolution for and why? Exit Question: Reflect on what you learned about Latin America and it's people. Vocabulary Congress of Vienna- it was convened by the four European powers which…

Beginning during the initial colonization of Brazil, through the Age of Imperialism when the fight for independence from Portugal began, Brazil has had a very colorful and significant history. While development in Brazil’s economy was slow to start, when valuable resources were discovered in Brazil the empire of industrialization began and lasted throughout the 21st century. Today, Brazil has one of the top ten largest economies worldwide. Brazil has been known to be an agrarian country, but…

oppressive autocratic leaderships have caused sequences of misery and torment for the ruled. Granting all this, the fate of Spain in particular, took a dramatic yet positive turn in the early 700s when Muslim forces invaded and reigned over the Iberian Peninsula alongside their very own set of regulations. In the following several decades, these regulations had been polished and calibrated to adapt the Hispanic environment and became well-established in the 12th century on account of having…

In his text A mad, bad, and dangerous people Boyd Hilton documents the wars with Napoleonic France and how they impacted British society. He argues that Britain went to all-out war with France when it became apparent that Napoleon and Tsar Alexander of Russia formed an alliance at Tilsit, with the potential to overpower nations such as Denmark, Sweden, and Portugal . Moreover, without British intervention, Napoleon would attain more power than he already had in 1807. Hilton argues that there was…

his cohort as they face overwhelming obstacles and rallies them onward to fortune and glory. This striking image coincidentally illustrates the origin of two disparate domains: Aeneas begetting the Roman people and Tariq ibn Zayid seizing the Iberian Peninsula for the Islamic Caliphate. The scenes of these heroes’ rousing speeches echo each other both literally and literarily as they open the classic tale of the birth of their cultures. The fictional Aeneas of Virgil’s epic poem as well as Tariq…

Poor nutrition, plagues, sexism, and social classes: these are only four of the prices of civilization that we, along with our ancestors, have faced. War is another major source of destruction, but also cooperation or even the creation of a new identity. War has the power to “make or break” a civilization, completely changing the course of history. No historian can ignore wars due to their influence. Merely one example of these influential wars are the Crusades. So, what is a Crusade? Depending…