Spanish Golden Age

Examples of Spanish Golden Age in the following topics:

• The Silo D'Oro

  • The Spanish Golden Age (Spanish: Siglo de Oro) is a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain, coinciding with the political rise and decline of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty.
  • The Spanish Golden Age (Spanish: Siglo de Oro, "Golden Century") is a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain, coinciding with the political rise and decline of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty.
  • Spanish rule of Naples was important for making connections between Italian and Spanish art, with many Spanish administrators bringing Italian works back to Spain.
  • The Spanish Golden Age was also a time of great flourishing in poetry, prose and drama.
  • Born when the Spanish Golden Age theater was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further and his work is regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theater.

• The Spanish Habsburgs

  • The Habsburg years were also a Spanish Golden Age of cultural efflorescence.
  • The Spanish Empire abroad became the source of Spanish wealth and power in Europe.
  • The Spanish branch of the Habsburg royal family was noted for extreme consanguinity.
  • The Spanish branch of the Habsburg royal family was noted for extreme consanguinity.
  • Explain why the Spanish Habsburgs grew increasingly feeble as a family.

• The Golden Age of India

  • The prosperity of the Gupta Empire produced a golden age of cultural and scientific advancements.
  • This period became known as the Golden Age of India because it was marked by extensive inventions and discoveries in science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.
  • Other scholars of the Golden Age helped create the first Indian numeral systems with a base of ten.
  • The cultural creativity of the Golden Age of India produced magnificent architecture, including palaces and temples, as well as sculptures and paintings of the highest quality.
  • The Golden Age of India produced many temples, decorated with various sculptures and paintings, such as the Dashavatara Temple, also known as the Vishnu Temple, in central India.

• Athens

  • Athens attained its Golden Age under Pericles in the 5th century BCE, and flourished culturally as the hegemonic power of the Hellenic world.
  • The 5th century BCE was a period of Athenian political hegemony, economic growth, and cultural flourishing that is sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Athens.
  • The latter part of this time period is often called The Age of Pericles.
  • With the empire's funds, military dominance, and its political fortunes as guided by statesman and orator Pericles, Athens produced some of the most influential and enduring cultural artifacts of Western tradition, during what became known as the Golden Age of Athenian democracy, or the Age of Pericles.
  • Pericles was arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens during its Golden Age.

• The Islamic Golden Age

  • Abbasid leadership cultivated intellectual, cultural, and scientific developments in the Islamic Golden Age.
  • During the Golden Age, the major Islamic capital cities of Baghdad, Cairo, and Córdoba became the main intellectual centers for science, philosophy, medicine, and education.
  • Ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, illuminated manuscripts, and woodwork flourished during the Islamic Golden Age.
  • Scholars developed large encyclopedias of medical knowledge during the Islamic Golden Age, such as this one from a manuscript dated circa 1200.
  • Identify the causes of, and developments during, the Islamic Golden Age

• Spanish Exploration

  • Of equal importance was the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
  • From there, the goods were transshipped across Mexico to the Spanish treasure fleets, for shipment to Spain.
  • The Spanish trading post of Manila was established to facilitate this trade in 1572.
  • An anachronous map of the Spanish Empire; Source: Wikipedia by Trasamundo.
  • Following the Age of Discovery and the colonization of the Americas, the Spanish Empire became the most powerful state in Europe: [Blue] Territories of the Portuguese empire during the Iberian Union (1580-1640); [Purple] Territories lost before or due to the Treaties of Utrecht-Baden (1713–1714); [Red] Territories lost before or during the Spanish American wars of independence (1808-1833); [Orange] Territories lost following the Spanish-American War (1898-1899); [Green] Territories granted independence during the Decolonization of Africa (1956-1976); [Brown] Current territories administered by Spain.

• Philip II and the Spanish Armada

  • He engaged the Spanish architect, Juan Bautista de Toledo, to be his collaborator.
  • This conflict consumed much Spanish expenditure during the later 16th century.
  • In 1588, the English defeated Philip's Spanish Armada, thwarting his planned invasion of the country to reinstate Catholicism.
  • Spanish forces and subsidies were withdrawn.
  • Portrait of King Philip II of Spain, in Gold-Embroidered Costume with Order of the Golden Fleece by Titian (around 1554)

• Crime and Punishment

  • Crimes were punished harshly during the Middle Ages with torture and executions common place for even the smallest of offenses.
  • By contrast, torturous executions were typically public, and woodcuts of English prisoners being hanged, drawn and quartered show large crowds of spectators, as do paintings of Spanish auto-da-fé executions, in which heretics were burned at the stake.
  • Describe the ways in which crimes were punished in the Middle Ages

• The Nerva-Antonine Dynasty

  • The Golden Age of Rome was a period of prosperity that fell under the "Five Good Emperors" of the Nerva-Antonine Dynasty: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius.
  • Describe the characteristics of the Golden Age and the achievements of the Five Good Emperors

• Fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire

  • The Holy Roman Empire was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806.
  • This ensured for the first time that all the realms of what is now Spain would be united by one monarch under one nascent Spanish crown.
  • The relationship between these separate inheritances would be defining elements of his reign and would make the personal union between the Spanish and German crowns short-lived.
  • In addition to conflicts between his Spanish and German inheritances, conflicts of religion would be another source of tension during the reign of Charles V.