Work for week March 30- April 2

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You don´t need to send them to me but they sure need to be in your notebook. I will ask you to send me all the activities later on.

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We are going to continue on unit 6. Please copy questions and answers in yout notebook.

The Peninsular monarchies
Act. 3.1a  
Read 3.1. After that listen to this audio file.

Read point 3.1 in your book. I have detected the main ideas for you. You only have to set them in the form of a mind-map.

peninsular kings      power diminished by nobles (fiefdoms or manors) and cities

Differences in the authority the king had

Castilla       unitary monarchy      greater authority (king didn´t have to make pacts with Courts)

Crown of Aragon (Corona de Aragón)      Aragón, Catalonia, Mallorca, Valencia     each one had its own institutions

pact-based system (pactismo)

Act. 3.1b
Read The following texts and answer to the questions

1. 1 Alfonso X believed that the power of the king came from ...
1.2. Do you think people would respect more the authority of the king if they thought his power came from God? why?
1.3 Who is Pedro II talking to in text B?
1.4 What did the king of the Crown of Aragon have to do if he wanted to make a law in the Crown of Aragon?
1.5 How do we call the system by which the king had to make an agreement with "Las Cortes" of the different kingdoms to change laws?

2. Read the following text and take a look at the illustration to answer to the questions:

2.1 Who are those people marked with number 3 in the illustration? To what estates do they belong?
2.2 Where and when were the first Courts celebrated?
2.3 How did the king summon them to Courts?
2.4 Which were generally the intentions of the king when he summoned Courts?


Act. 3.2. Institutions: Curia, Courts and Councils
Listen to this audio file.

Act. 4.1 Council or municipal repopulation
Listen to this audio file.
Make a mind map in your notebook.

Act. 4.2. Repopulation by the military orders
Listen to this audio file.
Make a mind map in your notebook.

Act. 4.3 Repopulation by repartimiento
Listen to this audio file.
Make a mind map in your notebook.

Act. 4.4 Now, answer to the following questions:
a. What is a charter?
b. Where was the council repopulation used?
c. What did each council get?
d. Why did knights receive a larger plot of land?
e. Where was the repopulation by the military orders used? Why?
f. How did they call the territories that the military orders got?
g. Where was the repartimiento system used? did everybody receive plots of the same size? why?
h. Read this text about the Charter or Code of Cuenca and answer to the questions:

 h1. Did people owning a house in the city of Cuenca have to pay taxes?
h2. Did people living in the council of Cuenca have to pay when they inheritate anything?
h3. The city of Cuenca was given a very important privilege when they were allowed to celebrate a fair (feria). Why do you think it was so important for the city?

Act 4.5 Now describe the first map in page 119: Repopulation of the Peninsula
(Don´t forget to mention the different kingdoms in the Peninsula)

Act 4.6 Take a look at the map about the military orders.

 

 
a. Which were the main military orders in the Kingdom of Castilla?
b. By looking at the map, which areas of Castilla do you think were the most dangerous at the time? why?
b. Which were the main military orders in the Crown of Aragon?