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14 de may. de 2024 · Conquistador, any of the leaders in the Spanish conquest of America, especially of Mexico and Peru, in the 16th century. The conquest of Mexico was carried out by Hernan Cortes, who landed at Veracruz in 1519; Peru was conquered by Francisco Pizarro and Diego del Almagro, which began in 1531.
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Hace 4 días · The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church. These events were part of the wider European Reformation , a religious and political movement that affected the practice of Christianity in ...
Hace 1 día · In the 16th century, perhaps 240,000 Spaniards entered American ports. They were joined by 450,000 in the next century.
6 de may. de 2024 · Renaissance art, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and literature produced during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in Europe under the combined influences of an increased awareness of nature, a revival of classical learning, and a more individualistic view of man.
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- Renaissance art is marked by a gradual shift from the abstract forms of the medieval period to the representational forms of the 15th century. Subj...
- Characteristics of Renaissance art, notably naturalism, can be found in 13th-century European art but did not dominate until the 15th century. Scho...
- Interest in humanism, a philosophy that emphasized the individual and the human capacity for fulfillment through reason, transformed the Renaissanc...
- The developments of the Renaissance changed the course of art in ways that continue to resonate today. Interest in humanism transformed the artist...
- Two of the most famous artworks in history were painted during the Renaissance: the Mona Lisa (c. 1503–19) and the Last Supper (c. 1495–98), both e...
Hace 2 días · The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
6 de may. de 2024 · Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. The Crusades took place from 1095 until the 16th century, when the advent of Protestantism led to the decline of papal authority.
Hace 3 días · The conventional medieval division of society into those who pray (clergy), those who fight (nobility), and those who labour (commoners or Third Estate) was never other than an ideal typology, but the wars of the seventeenth century gave it new vigour, as the nobility of Europe had ample opportunity to exercise its military calling.
