In the Elizabethan age the Spanish Armada controlled the seas with an iron fist. The Armada was extremely rich and incredibly powerful. Throughout all of the years Spain's Armada won countless battles, most of the battles were with the country of France (Easton 221). But France wasn't t...

Religious leaders in France were deeply affected by the politics of the land. An example would be the French leader, Catherine de Medici's. She became a regent for her son, Charles IX and also based her decisions on the possible political gains of her monarchy. She first tried to reconcile pro...

Emperor Charles V was one of the most important ruling personalities in European history. The lottery of birth placed Charles at the center of a genealogical network that covered half Europe. His father, Philip, was Duke of Burgundy. His grandfather was Emperor Maximilian of Austria. His m...

Emperor Charles V was one of the most important ruling personalities in European history. The lottery of birth placed Charles at the center of a genealogical network that covered half Europe. His father, Philip, was Duke of Burgundy. His grandfather was Emperor Maximilian of Austria. His m...

Kyriakos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) was trained as a post Byzantine religious icon painter in Crete and was influenced by the Cretian hagiographic school. He eventually abandoned this style. El Greco was a Spanish mannerist painter. In 1566 he went to Venice, Italy, where he remained until 1570 u...

In the very late 16th and early 17th century Spain went from being a leading power in Europe to having England, France, and the Dutch surpassing them. This was mostly due to a single event, the failed attack of the Spanish Armada in 1588 (Ulm). King Philip the II ordered the armad...

Sir Francis Drake Francis Drake was born sometime between 1540 and 1545 on a farm near Tavistock in Devon, a country in southwest England. Drake was born to his father Edmond who was a sailor and married woman of the Mylwaye whose first name was lost to history. Despite not knowing her name, we...

In Mary Louise Pratt's "Arts of the Contact Zone", she discusses the association of a less powerful civilization, the Andean's, and a powerful, dominant civilization, the Spanish. The Spaniards' lack of knowledge of the Andean civilization prevented them from realizing thei...

The Spanish Armada was a powerful navy that attempted to enter England by force in 1588. This navy had been called previously "The Invincible Armada", because the Spaniards thought that it could not be defeated (The History of...). Philip II of Spain had many reasons to want to get rid o...

In Arts of the Contact Zone, Mary Louise Pratt discusses a conflict, which she has labeled the "contact zone". Pratt defines the contact zone loosely as the social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other. In 1613 Guama Poma, a native Andean of Incan descent, wrote a twelve-h...

El Greco Biography In 1541, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, was born on the island of Crete in Greece. He became a master draftsman in Greece. In 1559, at the age of 18, he left Crete to study in Venice. There he studied for 10 years, and for 7 more years he studied in Rome. In 1577, after 17 years...

In 1490 there was no such country as Spain, yet within a century it had become the most powerful nation in Europe and within another had sunk to the status of a third-rate power. Describe and analyze the major social, economic, and political reasons for Spain's rise and fall. "In 14...