Early Medieval Europe

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Early Medieval Europe

• Dark Age(s) 6th to 8th Centuries
• Charlemagne 768-814
• Manors
• Peasants
• Nobles
• Feudal System
• Serfs

• Wergeld
• Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
• Vikings
• Knights

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Medieval Europe

• High Medieval Age 1000-1300
• Peasants
• Feudal Serf
• Demesne
• Vassals
• Suzerain
• Parish Clergy
• Regular Clergy (monks)

• Monasteries
• Bourgeoisie
• Ghettos
• Pogroms
• William the Conqueror 1066
• Doomsday Book 1080
• Philip II (Augustus)
• Frederick Barbarossa
• Crusades, Crusaders

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The Crusades
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• St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
• Gothic Architecture

• The Black Death
• Hundred Years War 1337-1453
• Joan of Arc
• Parliament
• Babylonian Captivity
• Great Schism
• Guilds

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Renaissance/Early Modern Europe

• Renaissance
• Humanism
• Sir Thomas More, Utopia
• Erasmus

• Machiavelli, The Prince 1516
• Magna Carta 1215
• Tsar (Czar)

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Mexico- the Indigenous Background

• Indians
• Corn (Maize)
• Maya
• Tikal
• Caciques
• Zapotecs
• Oaxaca
• Monte Alban
• Mixtecs
• Teotihuacán
• Toltecs
• Quetzalcoatl
• Itza

• Chichen Itza
• Tula
• League of Mayapan
• Aztecs
• Chichimecas
• Nahuatl
• Tenochtitlan
• Montezuma II
• Huitzilopochtli
• Yaqui

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Aztec Empire
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Peru- The Indigenous Backgroud

• The Inca Empire

• Lake Titicaca
• Incas
• Quechua
• Peru
• Cuzco
• Huayna Capac
• Huascar
• Atahualpa
• Pizarro

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Spanish Background to the Conquest of America

• Reconquest (Reconquista) 711-1492
• Santiago
• Inquisition
• Black Legend
• Christopher Columbus
• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Hispaniola (Santo Domingo) 1493
• Diego Velazquez
• Hernán (Hernando) Cortes (Cortez)
• Aguilar

• Malinche (Dona Marina)
• Quetzalcoatl Legend
• Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz
• Tenochtitlan
• Tlaxcalans
• Montezuma II
• Panfilo de Narvaez
• Pedro de Alvarado
• Smallpox
• Noche Triste
• Encomienda
• Cuauhtémoc

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Bartolomé de las Casas
Breve Relación (Brief Relation) Tells of Spanish
actrocities against the Indians 1550-1551
debates whether Indians are gente de razón with
Dr. Juan Gines de Sepulveda at the Spanish
court. 1544-1555 Bishop of Chiapas Mexico
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Spanish Conquest of Peru

• Francisco Pizarro
• Diego de Almagro
• Fernando de Luque
• Tumbez
• Hernando de Soto
• San Miguel
• Huayana Capac
• Atahuallpa
• Huascar

• Cajarmarca
• Valverde
• Requirimiento
• Quinto Real
• Hernando Pizarro
• Lima (Rimac)
• Gonzalo Pizarro
• Inca Manco
• Battle of Las Salinas 1538

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• Pedro de Valdivia
• Araucanians
• Lautaro

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Early Spanish Colonial Administration

• Cortes (Parliament)
• Obedezco pero no cumplo