Presentations

CARLOS I

- Protestan reformation
- Counter-reformation
- Foreign wars of Carlos I of Spain and V of Germany

FELIPE II

- Counter-reformation in Spain

- Rebelion in the Low Countries (1568)

- Felipe II king of Portugal in 1580.

- Battle of Lepanto (1571)

- Defeat of the Great Armada 1588.

FELIPE III

The expulsion of the Moriscos (1609)


FELIPE IV

Crisis of 1640: Rebelions in Portugal and Cataluña.

CARLOS II

Death of Carlos II and war of Succesion (1700)

2º ESO. Highligted book and vocabulary. Unit 2.

Highlighted book.

Vocabulary.

Act. tema 3

Actividades Reforma protestante / Carlos I de España y V de Alemania / Felipe II

Activities (Protestant Reformation)

3º ESO. Imágenes. Unit 2.

3º ESO (English) - Pieces of eight. Activities.

1.     TRUE or FALSE activity. Only four are true, the rest are false, and the false sentences only have one wrong word. Correct the wrong word.

a)      Before the discovery of the vast deposits of silver in the new world, there really was very little silver and gold to use as a medium of exchange.

b)      The silver was not allowed to the Indians. A big part of the silver was sent to Spain, and from Spain went to many parts of America.

c)      From about 1600, as the death rate soared among the local Indian communities, tens of thousands of Asian slaves were brought to Potosí to replace them.

d)      There, Spanish treasure fleets took the silver from Potosí (Bolivia) up to Mexico, where it was carried by land over the istmus  and then across the  Atlantic in convoys.

e)      But the very abundance of silver brought with it a new set of problems. Economic inflation was one of the negative consequences.

f)      Pieces of eight even got to Australia in the nineteenth century - when the French authorities ran out of currency there, they bought Spanish. They cut out the Spanish king's face, and they re-engraved the pieces of eight to read "FIVE SHILLINGS, NEW SOUTH WALES".

g)      Even today, when Spaniards want to say that something is worth a fortune, the say, "vale un peso de ocho reales",

h)      Ironically, silver coin became a abundant within Spain itself, as it hemorrhaged out  to pay for foreign goods, while local economic activity declined.

i)       The cause of the ruin of Spain is that riches ride in the form of bills of exchange, of silver and gold, instead of goods that bear fruit.

2.      Why the Spanish pieces of eight became the first global currency in human history?

3.      Why most of population of the Spanish territories did not obtain benefits from the silver and gold that arrived from Americ and even in many cases their situation worsens?

4.      If you had been king of Spain at those times, with the information that you have now, what would have you done with all this silver and gold? What did Phillip II (and the Spanish kings, in general) really do with all that silver and gold?