Pyrenees

Country is region situated at the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains between Spain and France and on the cost of the Bay of Biscay. The term Basque Country originated from the territories inhabited by the Basque people or Euskal Herria. The Basques are an ancient people who occupied the land of this region for thousands of years. Basque country is divided into two territories, north and south. The Northern territory is located in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques Department of France, commonly referred…

christian based Europe. Before Islam had taken over the territory was mostly just nomadic tribes for a very long time. Islam reached Western Europe through Spain having crossed the Straits of Gibraltar from North Africa. From Spain, it spread across the Pyrenees until the Franks routed the Muslim armies at the Battle of Tours in 732. Islam would retain a presence in Spain, however, until the last Muslim stronghold at Granada was defeated in 1492. Despite the impermanence of the Muslims in…

they used incense in the catholic church and it signified prayers going up to the saints. Incense is used in some Catholic masses in the U.S. as well. During the movie Spain appeared mountainous, green, and hilly. The Cantabrian Mountains and the Pyrenees Mountains are similar to the Appalachian or the Rocky Mountains in the United States. Both countries have areas that are mountainous. Spain has gypsies who are highly superstitious and don’t t typically allow outsiders in. The United States has…

Military tactics have evolved throughout history, one of the most important examples is the battle of Cannae. Facing all-out war against Rome for the second time, Carthage employed tactics the likes of which had not been seen. Hannibal Barca during the second Punic war forced Rome’s hand at the Battle of Cannae. Utilizing previous battle experience, the unorthodox makeup of his army and his overwhelming military tactics. Following the events of the first Punic war between Rome and carthage,…

Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866, in Moscow, Russia, to musical parents Lidia Ticheeva and Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky, a tea merchant. When Kandinsky was about 5 years old, his parents divorced, and he moved to Odessa to live with an aunt, where he learned to play the piano and cello in grammar school, as well as study drawing with a coach. Even as a boy he had an intimate experience with art; the works of his childhood reveal rather specific color combinations, infused by his…

all likelihood the lover of the protagonist, a young man. Depending on one’s perspective, the author may be informing the readers that he is talking about the young man’s nostalgia with his love, Miranda. They met and an inn located in the “High Pyrenees” and in that inn it gives an impression of was an extravagant party with muleteers. “Straw for a bedding… wine that tasted like tar” these verses may be a feasible imagery of the setting in the poem, a time in a gruesome war. The characters in…

The Western Roman Empire fell due to the Germanic tribes or barbarians constantly invading the borders of the empire. The invasions by the barbarians started in the Huns who pushed the Goths from their lands northwest of the Black Sea to the border of the Roman Empire at the western end of the Danube River. The 200,000 Goths emitted a lot of pressure on the emperor causing him to allow one Gothic tribe to cross the Danube River and live inside the border of the empire. Now in the empire the…

strategist, he pushed the Muslim rule in Europe further away. Between the years 777-778, Charlemagne began his expedition in Spain. He felt that the Muslim army posed a threat to the Frankish province of Aquitaine. Charlemagne led his army over the Pyrenees mountains into Spain. The Franks won battles and eventually took Basque, which was a Christian city. However, his army could not take Saragossa. With the difficulty of obtaining Saragossa, Charlemagne’s withdrew in the year 778. The…

sons of king Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Richard's father was an energetic and ruthless ruler, who managed to take control of large parts of Wales, the eastern half of Ireland and the western half of France (from Normandy to the Pyrenees, including, among others, the duchies of Gascony and Aquitaine, the counties of Anjou, Poitou, Maine and Touraine) , what would later come to be called the Angevin Empire. Henry II also held various levels of control over the duchies of…

Euroculture: Historical and Religious Perspectives Assingment I Henri Pirenne is a historian of Late Antiquity, and one of his most important works is, undoubtably, Mohammed and Charlemagne. Pirenne argues that the sea is an important factor in historical significance and development of cities and establishments, by pointing out that "Carthage, Alexandria, Naples, Antioch- were on or near the sea." but most importantly, the Roman civilization itself1. It is true that coasts…