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Ferdinand and Isabella: The Marriage That Unified Spain | TheCollector
The reconquest of Spain from Muslim rulers by the mid thirteenth century had encouraged the opening of a regular sea route between the Mediterranean and the ports of the English Channel and the North Sea. Lisbon, Seville and later Cadiz became the connecting links between the Atlantic and Mediterranean systems. Long before Columbus, Atlantic Iberia
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Pedro Girón Acuña Pacheco.
He was a powerful noble and the Grand Master of the Order of Calatrava, one of the most influential military orders in Castile. In 1466, Isabella’s half-brother, King Henry IV, arranged her betrothal to Pedro Girón as a political move to secure loyalty from the powerful Girón family.
However, just days after the betrothal
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filibustero: pirata que durante el siglo XVII actuaba en el mar de las antillas y atacaba a los barcos que comerciaban con las colonias españolas de américa.
filigrana: adorno hecho con hilos de oro o plata que, entrelazados, forman un dibujo parecido a un encaje.
frazada: manta de cama gruesa y peluda que proporciona mucho calor.
fundo: explotación
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Ferdinand and Isabella: The Marriage That Unified Spain | TheCollector
Thirty Years’ War | Summary, Causes, Combatants, Map, & Significance | Britannica
The forward move on to the American continent was the work not of princes or capitalists at home in Europe, but of gold-hungry frontiersmen spurred on by the rapid exhaustion of the islands’ deposits. Without the short-lived gold rush on the Caribbean islands and the nearby Tierra Firme, the impetus towards the territorial conquest of the mainland
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galena: mineral compuesto de azufre y plomo, de color gris, que cristaliza en cubos.
galpón: construcción grande y techada que se emplea como taller mecánico, carpintería o depósito de mercancía.
gendarmería: cuerpo militarizado con funciones de policía. su nombre que en su origen se aplicaba en francia a toda tropa de "gentes de armas" que el señor
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