1. Middle Age
(1492-1789)

2. The Middle Age is a period of history
that beging in 1492 with descovery
of America and ends in 1789 with
the French Revolution

3. Top FacTs
• Discovery of America
• Birth of the Renaissance
• Birth of the Baroque
• Birht of the Enlightenment
• Golden age
• War of
• French Revolution

4. Di scover y of Am i ca
er
• The discovery of America expression is commonly used to refer to the arrival in
America of a Spanish expeditionary force that, representing the Catholic Monarchs,
departed from the port of Palos, commanded by Christopher Columbus, and arrived
on Friday October 12, 1492 to an island called Guanahani. Voyages of the
Portuguese to India following the African coast meant a stimulus for other European
navigators who believed it was possible to reach the regions of East Asia by sailing
west. Christopher Columbus was in favor of this hypothesis. Supported by the
Spanish monarchy, organized a journey of exploration that led to the American coast
in 1492. Columbus believed he had reached Asia, called by Europeans Indies and
died without knowing that it had reached an unknown continent by Europeans.
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 When Christopher Columbus arrived in Asia.

5. Birth of the Renaissance
In XV and XVI centuries , the Renaissance.- Classical artistic models : Greek
and Roman.Renaissance is the name given to a broad cultural movement that
occurred
in Western Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Its main exponents are in
the field of the arts, but also there was a renewal in the sciences, both natural and
human. Italy was the birthplace of the movement and development.
The Renaissance was the result of the dissemination of ideas of humanism, which
led to a new conception of man and the world. The name "renaissance" was used
because this movement resumed certain elements of classical culture. The term
was originally applied as a return to the values ​of Greco-Roman culture and
contemplation of nature free after centuries of dominance of a mindset more rigid
and dogmatic set in the Europe of the Middle Ages. This new stage raised a new
way of seeing the world and the human being, with new approaches in the fields of
arts, politics and science, replacing the medieval theocentrism certainly
anthropocentrism.

6. Birth of the Baroque
In XVII century , the Baroque style. - Painting and sculpture very realistic
and architecture overdone.
In XVII century , the Baroque style.- Painting and sculpture very realistic
and architecture overdone. The Baroque is a period of artistic style that
used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce
drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting,
architecture, literature, dance and music. The style began around 1600 in
Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe.
The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the
Roman Catholic Church, which had decided at the time of the Council of
Trent, in response to the Protestant Reformation, that the arts should
communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement. The
aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a
means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control.
Baroque palaces are built around an entrance of courts, grand staircases
and reception rooms of sequentially increasing opulence.

7. Birht of the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was a historical period and a European intellectual and cultural
movement, especially in France and England, which ran from the late seventeenth
century to the beginning of the French Revolution, although in some countries
continued during the early years of the nineteenth century. It was named for its stated
aim to dispel the darkness of humanity by the light of reason. The eighteenth century
is known, for this reason, as the Enlightenment.
The Enlightenment thinkers argued that human reason could combat ignorance,
superstition and tyranny, and build a better world. The Enlightenment had a great
influence in economic, political and social era. The aesthetic expression of the
intellectual movement called Neoclasicismo.

8. Golden age
The historically so lucky Golden definition was created by the famous
eighteenth-century scholar and antiquarian Jose Luis Velazquez
Valdeflores Marquis (1722-1772), who used it for the first time in
1754, in his important and pioneering work of poetry criticism
Origins Castilian, 1 but to refer exclusively to the sixteenth century.
Later the definition was expanded, understanding all the classical
age or height of the Spanish culture, essentially the XVI century
Renaissance and Baroque For XVII.2 century historiography and
modern theorists, then, and sticking to specific dates of events key,
the "Golden Age" includes the publication of Spanish grammar de
Nebrija in 1492 until the death of Calderon in 1681.

9. War of Succession
The War of Spanish Succession was an international
conflict that lasted from 1701 until the signing of the
CAUSES
Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, which had the primary - The Austrian opposition to the will of
cause of death, without issue, of Charles II of Spain, Charles II.
the last speaker of the House of Habsburg, and left
main consequence of the establishment of the House - The Sun King's misguided policy by stating,
of Bourbon on the throne of Spain. Inside Spain
Succession War evolved into a civil war between in December 1700, the new Spanish
Bourbon and austriacistas, whose last embers were monarch, his grandson could not give up their
not extinguished until 1714 with the capitulation of rights to the French crown, which opened the
1715 with Barcelona and Mallorca's capitulation to the possibility of meeting both thrones in one
forces of King Philip V of new Spain.
sovereign, breaking and European
equilibrium theory.
- The opening of France's trade with the
Indies, which caused suspicion in England
and Holland.
- The decision by France of the squares of
the "Barrier Belgian", which posed a danger
to the Netherlands.

10. French Revolution
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with different
periods of violence that convulsed France and, by extension of its
implications, other European nations who battled supporters and
opponents of the system known as the Old Regime. It began with
the self-proclamation of the Third Estate as National Assembly in
1789 and ended with the coup of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799.
While the political organization of France ranged republic,
constitutional monarchy and empire for 71 years after the First
Republic fell after the coup of Napoleon Bonaparte, the truth is that
the revolution marked the definitive end of Absolutism and bore to a
new regime where the bourgeoisie, and sometimes the masses,
became the dominant political force in the country. The revolution
undermined the foundations of the monarchy as such, beyond its
death, to the extent that ousted him with a speech again able
illegitimate.