tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58741675303710769402024-03-13T05:17:18.762-07:00Oh no! I can't stand Social Studies!Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-69731970505757515532012-06-20T03:25:00.003-07:002012-06-20T03:25:55.159-07:00Land and Freedom 10<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LxtsRhBChbI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-39774423073296082412012-06-20T03:25:00.000-07:002012-06-20T03:25:22.163-07:00Land and Freedom 9<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KHdpFFf--jU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-83694839992203462662012-06-20T03:24:00.005-07:002012-06-20T03:24:44.416-07:00Land and Freedom 8<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/944s74-YGs0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-83777483705653651102012-06-20T03:24:00.002-07:002012-06-20T03:24:20.593-07:00Land and Freedom 7<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/X3Ts96KxCoU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-33476534243451894962012-06-20T03:23:00.003-07:002012-06-20T03:23:54.145-07:00Land and Freedom 6<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pRLUgbuOkWE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-76224047764575983182012-06-20T03:23:00.001-07:002012-06-20T03:23:12.969-07:00Land and Freedom 5<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0YkJ140bEoo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-6894165875863132102012-06-20T03:22:00.002-07:002012-06-20T03:22:38.667-07:00Land and Freedom 4<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kB5umI_nr-E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-5839574203652258442012-06-20T03:22:00.000-07:002012-06-20T03:22:05.369-07:00Land and Freedom 3<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YU08CVJ0dTk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-71376723126154197212012-06-20T03:09:00.000-07:002012-06-20T03:09:08.775-07:00Land and Freedom 2<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/v2pHPskRgmc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-64112209507242335622012-06-20T03:08:00.001-07:002012-06-20T03:08:06.572-07:00Land and Freedom 1<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/am2Gd_RMros" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-27000127595748636342012-04-26T13:47:00.001-07:002012-04-26T13:47:50.184-07:00PDF about the feudal system<div style="text-align: justify;">
Due to technical problems it has been completely impossible to upload the pdf about feudalism from my computer as I promised to 2nd CD. I am trying again tomorrow in the school. I hope that you will have this file available for this weekend.</div>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-40032406977945626222012-04-24T04:09:00.001-07:002012-04-24T04:09:18.722-07:00User Manual: The Wall of the BlogFrom now on the wall of this blog is only for special materials and messages. All pdfs we work in class with as well as activities, tasks, projects, etc are going to be found below the corresponding sections on the right bar.Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-88827720792994399052012-03-20T06:46:00.001-07:002012-03-20T06:47:54.323-07:00The 13th Warrior<div style="text-align: justify;">After the introductory powerpoint you will see the USA film "The Thirteenh Warrior" , which is based on Michael Crichton's pseudo-historical novel Eaters of the Dead. In order to revise the different topics you have learned about in class for the last weeks you are asked to answer the following questions while watching the film.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-Where and when is the action set? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-Can you see any social hierarchy in the groups depicted in this film? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-Compare the Arab and the Viking government system.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-Which evidence have you found in the film to prove that Vikings were superstitious? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-How does Ahmed learn the language spoken by the Norsemen? Which language is this?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> -Can the Norsemen in this film read or write? Why do you know?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-Which enemy does the group of Vikings have to fight against</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">-Do you think that this film is entirely historical? Why?</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Voluntary task</b>.<b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Do a portfolio about the historical background and the legend of Beowulf to hand in on the last day before Easter holiday.</span></div></div>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-1324325576798646572012-03-18T05:28:00.000-07:002012-03-18T05:28:15.608-07:00Romantics turned into nationalists: Verdi and the claim for freedom<div style="text-align: justify;">Many of Verdi's operas can be interpreted as allegories for the Italian struggle against the Austrians and other foreign oppressors. The most famous is Nabucco (1842), about the captivity of the Jews in Babylon. Its chorus of the Hebrew slaves, 'Va Pensiero', became virtually the anthem of the national movement.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Which Italian kingdom played a leading role in the unification process?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-When did the Italian unification process finish? (year)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-How many phases in this process would you establish after looking at the map?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Which European nation had a pre-eminent position in the Italian peninsula at the beginning of the 19<sup>th</sup> century?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Were other nations involved in this process? Which and how?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Which Italian characters participated in the unification in one way or another? If possible, would you be able to say where they came from? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Was there any other non Italian character's participation in these events? Who?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Were there any revolutions in the Italian peninsula in 1848-9? Where? Did they have any success?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Why did the French army intervene in Rome in 1849? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-When and how did the Italians add the kingdom of Lombardy? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Who were responsible for the “conquest” of territories in 1860? How? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Who was declared the king of Italy? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-When and how did the Italian side obtain Venetia?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-What was the last territory to be added to the Italian Kingdom? When was it incorporated? How?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Look for information about the ideological differences between Garibaldi, Cavour, Mazzini and Victor Emmanuel II. Would you be able to classify these four characters into two main government options for the newborn Italian nation? </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Who was Metternich? </div><div> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Which territories did Prussia control in 1815, after the Congress of Vienna? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Was there any freedom of expression in the German states? Why?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-What was the Zollverein? Did it have any precedent? Why do you think that Austria wasn't allowed to participate by Prussia? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Which consequences did Metternich's resignation have in 1848? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-What did the Frankfurt Parliament consist of? Did it have any success? Why?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-What was the main aim of the Erfurt Union? Did it have any success? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-What happened in Prussia during 1860-62?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Were Schleswig and Holstein important in the relationship between Prussia and Austria? Why?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Which nation added these Danish duchies finally? When were these territories incorporated? (look at the map) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-In 1867 the German states were divided into tho main areas of influence. Which? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Read the information about the Hohenzollern crisis. Do you think that Bismark acted in a cunning way with regard to this issue? Why?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-If I say that Bismark promoted the nationalist feeling in 1870... what do you understand?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-Which were the last territories to be incorporated to the German Empire (Second Reich) led by Prussia? When were these added?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">-When was the Franco-Prussian war fought? How did it end? Which territories were given to the winner? </div>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-78105560143070728732012-02-26T10:54:00.004-08:002012-02-26T11:01:14.975-08:00The revolutionary 19th century<title></title> <style type="text/css">
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</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">The Congress System broke up because France and Britain were in total disagreement with Russia, Austria and Prussia. After 1815 the great powers never met again. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">Nationalism, liberalism and socialism became the major influences which help us to understand the revolutionary processes along the period which started in 1820. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Liberal and nationalist revolutions of 1820</b></span></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">In 1820 the first liberal revolution broke out in <b>Spain</b>. The liberals rebelled, under the initiative of a general called Rafael Riego, and managed to force the absolute king, Fernando VII, who had rejected the liberal constitution which had been previously passed in 1812, to accept the popular sovereignty which was represented by this former legal document. For three years the liberals governed Spain, until French troops intervened militarly in 1823 making the revolution to fail. </span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aUlUrgl0Q9A/T0p40gndJyI/AAAAAAAAACo/YZcHXfZ4JUU/s1600/Rafael_Riego.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aUlUrgl0Q9A/T0p40gndJyI/AAAAAAAAACo/YZcHXfZ4JUU/s320/Rafael_Riego.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Rafael Riego, a liberal general</span></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">Shortly after the Spanish revolution, a liberal revolution in <b>Portugal </b>succeeded and a constitutional government was created. This wouldn't have been possible without an army the British sent in order to make sure that the revolt had success.</span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">In <b>Latin America</b> the subjects of the kings of Spain and Portugal rebelled in order to obtain their independence. Spanish colonies were lost in Latin America, with the exception of Cuba and Puerto Rico. </span> <br />
<div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">The members of the Holy Alliance tried to intervene but they met the hostility by the British and the USA president, James Monroe, who declared, in his famous Doctrine of 1823, that any interference by European powers in the affairs of the American continent would be regarded "as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition to the United States"; in other words, an act of war. </span> </div><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">The last revolution of the decade was the Greek. These people rebelled against the Ottoman Turks. For several years the Greeks had been fighting for their independence from the Ottoman Empire, and finally they obtained it in 1827, thanks to the support of different nations: France, Britain and Russia. In 1832 the European major nations recognized <b>Greece</b> as an independent sovereign state.</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kBr_dZvZNEw/T0p1azSdHvI/AAAAAAAAACg/ZAyMXWOxMZc/s1600/messolonghi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kBr_dZvZNEw/T0p1azSdHvI/AAAAAAAAACg/ZAyMXWOxMZc/s1600/messolonghi.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Siege of the city Messolonghi, symbol of the Greek resistance </span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Revolutions of 1830</b></span></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=5874167530371076940" name="ref381"></a><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">In France the population revolted against the absolute Bourbon monarch, Charles X who had published four ordinances dissolving the Chamber of Deputies, suspended freedom of the press, modified the electoral laws so that three-fourths of the electorate lost their votes, and called for new elections to the Chamber in September. Strikes and protests were followed by armed confrontations. The royal forces were unable to contain the insurrection and, after three days of fighting (July 27–29) Charles X was replaced by another king, Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, who had fought for the French Republic in 1792. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">The French example was followed in many parts of Europe in the same year but most liberals throughout Europe were disappointed in their expectations of a radical, social change since the other revolts were supressed harshly. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">In <b>Poland</b>, people revolted against the Russian Tsar, but their revolt was cruelly suppressed and Poland was incorporated into the Russian Empire.</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"><b>Belgium</b> declared its independence from the Netherlands, and it was recognized in 1831 as an independent nation.</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">The <b>Italian and German </b>nationalist and liberal revolts were cruelly ended.</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Revolutions of 1848</b></span></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">This year was known as the <b>Spring of Nations or the Year of the Revolution</b>.</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">The period of unrest began in France and then, further propelled by the French Revolution of 1848, soon spread to the rest of Europe. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">In Paris middle class elements demanding the vote were joined by workers demanding an end to their explotation. King Louis Philippe fled into the exile and his constitutional monarchy was substituted by the French Second Republic. This government was headed by Louis-Napoleon who, after only four years, returned France to a monarchy with the establishment of the Second French Empire in 1852. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">The French was the only revolution in 1848 which was successful. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VWsQOnyaWzE/T0p9-DcT44I/AAAAAAAAADA/sn8y3m4W1Ms/s1600/Le+cri+du+peuple+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="158" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VWsQOnyaWzE/T0p9-DcT44I/AAAAAAAAADA/sn8y3m4W1Ms/s320/Le+cri+du+peuple+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> Le Cri du Peuple (comic by French artist Tardi about this revolution)</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">Other revolutions: </span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">a) Liberal (Vienna) </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;"> b) Nationalist (Hungary, Bohemia, North of Italy, German states)</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">The years 1815 to 1848 have often been called "the years of Metternich". <b>Klemens von Metternich</b> was the Austrian chancellor at this period and he was, without doubt, the greatest statesman in Europe. His ambition had been to destroy all traces of revolutionary change in Europe introduced since 1789. He was the arch-conservative who was violently opposed to any kind of reform and who succeeded in imposing his ideas on the rest of Europe, helped by the Holy Alliance. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J2SesaU4C8o/T0p728VU_OI/AAAAAAAAACw/oqOWupvkE1I/s1600/metternich.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J2SesaU4C8o/T0p728VU_OI/AAAAAAAAACw/oqOWupvkE1I/s1600/metternich.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS,cursive;">He realised that if the liberal and nationalist demands were met, and the people of Europe were given the chance to freely choose the country in which they lived and the type of government that ruled them, then the Austrian Empire was finished. Until 1848, he had largely succeeded, but, in that year, when Hungary had risen in revolt and Austrian students had demonstrated in the streets of Vienna demanding "Down with Metternich!", the emperor dismissed him. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>Activities</u></b><b>:</b></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>1) Why do you think that France crushed the first Spanish liberal revolution in 1823? </b> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>2) Comment on the following quote by the USA President, James Monroe:</b> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<i><span style="font-family: Script,cursive; font-size: small;">The American continents ... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers</span></i><span style="font-size: large;">”</span>.</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>3) Comment on the following quote by Von Metternich:</b></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">“ <span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: Script,cursive; font-size: small;">Italy is only a geographical expression</span></i>”</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>4) Why did the French, who already had a constitutional monarchy, rebel, in 1848, against their monarch, who, besides, had defended the revolutionary principles actively in 1792? </b></span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Extra, voluntary task</span></u>:</b></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R2WLFbYnILs/T0p8I02OGkI/AAAAAAAAAC4/SVWb2WLxOT4/s1600/simon.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R2WLFbYnILs/T0p8I02OGkI/AAAAAAAAAC4/SVWb2WLxOT4/s320/simon.jpeg" width="222" /></a></div><b>1) Write a composition (250 words) on the Latin American Revolutions and the role Simon Bolivar adopted in these. </b> </div>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-89845535765180634652012-02-14T05:35:00.000-08:002012-02-14T05:35:28.983-08:00Changes in the blog<div style="text-align: justify;">As technical problems didn't allow you to download some of the materials I've been uploading up to now I have decided to do it in a different way. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since now, if you are interested in downloading some of the resources we are using in class, you will have to go to the right side of the blog, below the <u><b>List of resources</b></u> section and look for your topic. Once you have found it, double-click on it. You'll be redirected to another page where you can directly download the file as a pdf. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm uploading past documents during this week. So if you can't find an old one, please be patient. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you have any problem let me know. </div>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-72810132216431866122012-02-14T02:16:00.001-08:002012-02-14T02:17:22.397-08:00Let's go back to the past: The European Restoration<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">I. The Congress of Vienna (1814-15)</span></b></span><br />
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<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">After Napoleon's abdication in April 1814, representatives of all the states of Europe met in Vienna in order to decide what to do now that the Napoleonic threat had disappeared. </div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">They had three <b>priorities</b>:</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">-To reduce the size of France to its frontiers before Napoleon's invasion.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">-To ensure that France could never again be a threat to the rest of Europe.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">-To recompense those countries that had been “anti-Napoleon” and punish those that had been “pro-Napoleon”.</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The <b>attendants</b> to this meeting in Vienna were: </div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">a) Austria, Prussia, Russia and Britain (the most important)</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">b) France, Spain, Portugal and Sweden</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">c) Bavaria, Hanover, Denmark and Savoy (minor states)</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The<b> map </b>of Europe was modified after the Congress <a href="http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/3600/3681/3681.gif" target="_blank">in this way</a> (<i>click on these words to enlarge the map below</i>): </div><br />
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There is another map (in colour and clearer) of the territorial distribution after Congress of Vienna on <i><a href="http://static.skynetblogs.be/media/50920/dyn004_original_1290_1003_pjpeg_2574188_12f031cfc6c6231f4efacefe69edf3d9.jpg" target="_blank">the following link</a></i> you can also use. <br />
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<b>Major failings</b> of the Congress of Vienna were:</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">a) The redrawing of the map of Europe took no account of the wishes of the ordinary people, with regard to the nationalist feeling which had appeared during the Napoleonic military campaigns and had been fatal to him. Millions of people in Europe refused to accept the imposition of foreign rulers and, as a result, nationalist revolutions broke out in many regions after 1820. </div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">b) After the dismantling of Napoleon's empire, Russia, Austria and Prussia wanted to reinstall monarchies of the Ancien Régime. This led to more revolts and revolutions since Napoleon had introduced liberal constitutions which made a profound impact on the people who lived in the regions the French Emperor had conquered. </div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 0);">II. The Holly Alliance </span></b></span> </div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">It was a coalition of different states which was created in 1815 and whose members were Russia, Austria and Prussia .The monarchs of these three nations wanted to install the Christian values of charity and peace in European political life, but in practice what they were chasing was to band together in order to prevent revolutionary influence (especially from the French Revolution) from entering their territories. Except for Great Britain, the Vatican and the Ottoman Empire, all other European nations joined. </div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Activities:</b></span></div><ol><li><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Which type of government did the founders of the Holly Alliance have? Why didn't Great Britain join forces with these nations?</b></div></li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Remember what we have seen in class about liberalism. Describe the political and economical features this term had at the time you are studying. Did the Enlightenment have any influence on liberalism? Why? </b><br />
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<li><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Compare the 1812 map and the map for the period after the Congress of Vienna. Which changes can you observe? </b><br />
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<li><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>What's the model for the liberal constitutions Napoleon introduced? </b><br />
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<li><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Comment on the following sentence from a History textbook :</b></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<b><span style="font-style: normal;">The European Restoration meant an ideological conflict whose consequences echoed throughout the nineteenth century </span>(...)”.</b></div></li>
</ol><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> Focus on these concepts: <i>European Restoration</i>, <i>ideological conflict</i> and<i> consequences</i></b></div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div></div>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-47390812510319513522012-02-07T11:46:00.000-08:002012-02-07T11:51:40.666-08:00Extra sources about Napoleon<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Napoleon (2002)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">French-German-British mini-series about Napoleon's figure. <b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Film based on author Patrick O'Brian's series of naval books whose action is set during the Napoleonic Wars, at the beginning of the 19th century. A good adventure film as well as a historical drama which was nominated to 10 Oscars. </div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>War and Peace (1956)</b></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Classical drama film based on Leo Tolstoy famous novel which illustrates the war between the French and the Russian Empires.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Barry Lyndon (1975) </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Film which tell us about the adventures and misadventures of a member of the minor, landed aristocracy of Ireland who wants to climb the social ladder and reach a higher position by means of enrolling in the British army. Subsequently this fact will lead him to participate in the Napoleonic Wars. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The film was produced, written and directed by famous director Stanley Kubrick and it is considered one of his finest works. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Duellists (1977)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Historical drama film which is set during the Napoleonic Wars and whose plot is about two French Hussar officers's feud, whose cause is a misundertanding between both duellists, is over fifteen(!) years. It was the first film Ridley Scott directed. As an anecdote I'd say that this film contains real fencing scenes, something which is not usual in most later films. </div>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-87105720607448530822012-01-28T16:15:00.000-08:002012-01-28T16:17:15.832-08:00Ideologies in the 18th and 19th centuries (PDF)<div style="text-align: justify;">If you click on the following <a href="http://www.zshare.net/download/9893918778935124/" target="_blank">link</a> you'll be able to download the pdf we are commenting in class on these days.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-45206837246667151862012-01-28T15:59:00.000-08:002012-02-01T02:26:47.997-08:00Rowing with the Wind (Remando al viento), by Gonzalo Suárez (1987)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/92U3orszabY?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />
Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, John Polidori and, of course, "the Monster", in a dramatic film by Gonzalo Suárez which won seven Goya Awards and is representative of the spirit of Romanticism.<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">(Sorry but there is no English trailer in Youtube...)</div>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5874167530371076940.post-49408868633828305612012-01-28T15:32:00.000-08:002012-01-28T15:34:32.538-08:00Napoleon, that short loony<title></title> <style type="text/css">
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</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Napoleon Bonaparte was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as <b>Napoleon I</b>, whose actions affected European politics in the early 19th century. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica in 1769. He was the son of a noble. In 1785, at the age of 16, Napoleon became second lieutenant in the artillery. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><u>Napoleon became sympathetic to the Revolution</u> in 1789. In the Battle of Toulon in 1793, Napoleon led a victorious attack on a Royalist fort and was then promoted to Brigadier General. Napoleon gained more attention in 1795 when he put down a pro- royalist coup in Paris. He was promoted to Major General. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">In 1796 he was put in charge of the French army fighting the Austrians, who, being pro-absolute monarchy, were anti-revolutionaries, in Italy. Napoleon and his army won several great victories over the Austrians and Italians. Between 1798 and 1799 Napoleon’s plans to attack the British went badly wrong. His army was ravaged by plague and sickness, and <u>Nelson’s British Navy</u> destroyed many of Napoleon’s own ships. Still, Napoleon seized Malta and had several victories in Egypt during the expedition. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Napoleon returned to Paris in August 1799, after hearing of the military crisis facing France and on November 11th 1799, <u>Napoleon seized control of France in the ‘coup d’état’</u> (or Coup de Brumaire). Following the Coup, a new constitution was introduced, and <u>Napoleon was made First Consul of France</u>. Then, on December 2nd, 1804, in the presence of the Pope, <u>Napoleon crowned himself Emperor</u>. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><u><b>Napoleon and his influence over Europe</b></u></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><u>Napoleon conquered most of continental Europe</u>. As he conquered other European nations, he helped to <u>spread some of the French Revolution ideas</u> and put his relatives in control. Napoleon named himself king of Italy while his brothers became kings in Spain (Joseph Bonaparte), Holland and Westphalia (now part of Germany). </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Unfortunately for him, his invasion of Spain was a disaster, which persuaded the Austrians to start a new war against the French. In 1812, his campaign against the Russians had the same result. Finally, <u>the allied nations of Europe defeated Napoleon in 1813 and in 1815</u> (Waterloo). He was forced to exile to an island called St. Helena, where he died in 1821. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Thanks to this character, the revolutionary, liberal ideas whose origin is French, spread across Europe where they mixed with another new concept, <u>nationalism</u>. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><u><b>Napoleon and his work in France</b></u></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Napoleon became Emperor of France, and could not be removed from power. There were two National Assemblies, with members chosen by Napoleon from candidates elected by the people. All men could vote, but after 1804, there were no elections. All laws were made by the Assemblies. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">France under Napoleon sometimes seemed similar to France under King Louis. The Prison and Courts system was ‘officially’ different, in that you could no longer be put in prison without charge and everyone was equal in the courts, nobles did not have special rights anymore, but even in </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Napoleon’s rule there were restrictions. He had a secret police force, which from 1810 could arrest people without trial. Napoleon, like King Louis, and unlike the Revolution, tried to censor and control the newspapers, and free speech was not allowed in France or the French Empire. </span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">During the Revolution, the land owned by the Catholic Church was sold off and any religion was permitted (only Catholicism was practised in the ‘Ancien Regime’). In 1802, Napoleon made an agreement with the Pope called the <u><b>Concordat</b></u> in which the Pope agreed that the Church would not get its land back and in return, Catholicism was accepted as the religion of the majority. As well as this, it was agreed that Bishops were to be chosen by Napoleon, and agreed by the Pope. This meant that the government now had greater control over the Church. </span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">In 1804 the Napoleonic Code was introduced. It had a set of clear laws, applicable to all members of French Society. The Code was also introduced into other parts of Europe conquered by Napoleon, like Italy, Spain and some parts of Germany. </span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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<tr> <td valign="top" width="338"><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><b>The Code Napoleon </b></span></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><b>(1804)</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"></span></div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">The Code stated that: </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">• <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">All people were declared equal before the law. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">There were no longer any special privileges for </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Nobles, Churchmen or rich people </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">• <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Feudal rights were ended. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">• <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Trial by Jury was guaranteed. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">• <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Religious Freedom was guaranteed. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">• <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Wives were not allowed to sell or give away </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">property. </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">• <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">A wife could only own property with her </span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">husband’s consent in writing. </span> </div></td> </tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><u><b> Activities</b></u></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><b>0) Comment on these Napoleon's quotes:</b> </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><i>Frenchmen, without a doubt, you will see in what I did that I am a soldier who supports liberty and am a citizen who is devoted to the Republic.</i><span style="font-style: normal;">(From a translation of the </span><i>official</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> version of the coup)</span></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><i>It is not what is true that counts, but what people think is true.”</i></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><b>1) Read the extract from the Napoleonic Code and answer:</b></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">Are the contents of this code original (=new)? Why? </span> </div><div align="justify" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><b>2) Explain this quote by Napoleon:</b></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><i>The People must have religion, and religion must be in the hands of the government</i>.” </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"><b>3) Look at the map below and answer the following questions:</b></span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">a) Why do you think other European nations decided to start a war against France before Napoleon's “coup d'état”?</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">b) Why did Napoleon decide to continue the war in Europe? </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">c) Which nations were the most important enemies of France? Why? </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">d) Why do you think the British and the French fought in Egypt? </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">e) Is the date for this map relevant?</span></div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">f) Look for information about the Confederation of the Rhine. How was it founded? Which Baltic nation had interest on this area? Which opinion did this nation have about the French influence in central Europe? </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">g) Look for information about the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and answer this question: How did Napoleon manage to control this Duchy? </span> </div><div align="justify" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">h) The nation we know nowadays as Italy was divided into different states before the Napoleonic era. What did Napoleon do in the Italian peninsula? Which Italian territories belong to France? Over which territories did Napoleon have indirect control? Why do you think the Italians fought the French? (in order to answer this last question you'll have to investigate). </span><br />
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<u><b>Films</b></u><b>:</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Gladiator </b></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">An interesting film which is set during the Empire. It is not considered really 100% accurate in historical terms, but it 's truly exciting.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Agora</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The film takes place in Egypt at the end of the Empire and tell us about the conflict among believers of three different religions -Paganism, Christianity and Judaism, as well as its consequences on the scientific work of a woman, Hypatia. It also depicts the destruction of the most famous library of the Ancient Age, which was located in Alexandria. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Centurion </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Adventure film which is set in Caledonia (Roman name for Scotland). Tons of action and light humour for a simple plot about a centurion and some legionaries under his command who have to face the terrible picts (Scots) in order to rescue their general, who is taken prisoner by the locals at the beginning of the film. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Rome</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">HBO series with two seasons. First season has twelve episodes, while the second one has ten. It was cancelled as it resulted to be very expensive. Although it is not really accurate historically you can watch it as an entertaining introduction to Ancient Rome.The whole series is set between the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Last Legion, by Valerio Massimo Manfredi</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A novel whose action is set during the last days of the Western Roman Empire: A band of legionaries are ready to fight against the barbarians in order to rescue young emperor Romulus Augustus. It is also a recent film.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Marco Didio Falco's novels by Lindsey Davis</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T6qUYEz5T-g/TxdM4qaU0yI/AAAAAAAAABw/TQeFVd7EX9Q/s1600/marco+dido.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T6qUYEz5T-g/TxdM4qaU0yI/AAAAAAAAABw/TQeFVd7EX9Q/s1600/marco+dido.jpeg" /></a><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Set of novels whose main character is a private eye (detective) who lives in Ancient Rome. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b> </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="color: red; text-align: justify;"><span class="body">"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!</span> (...) <span class="body">Revolutions are the locomotives of history.</span> (...)To my mind, the so-called ‘socialist society’ is not anything immutable. Like all other social formations, it should be conceived in a state of constant change. It’s basic difference from the present order consists naturally in production organized on the basis of common ownership by the nation of all means of production". (K.Marx)</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">We perform the duties of freemen; we must have the privileges of freemen. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Consequently, firstly we demand universal suffrage. <span class="H_body_text">The suffrage to be exempt from the corruption of the wealthy, and the violence of the powerful, must be secret.This demand should be completed with the ballot. </span></div><div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="H_body_text"> </span><span class="H_body_text">We also consider that, to public safety as well as public confidence, frequent elections are essential, so that we demand annual parliaments.</span> (Adapted from the People's Charter, 1838)</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness; and the only obstacle we have nowadays to reach this state of society is ignorance. (Robert Owen)<br />
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As the Liberty lads o'er the sea<br />
Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood,<br />
So we, boys, we<br />
Will die fighting, or live free,<br />
And down with all kings but King Ludd!<i> </i>(Lord Byron)<i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="sqq">“The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="sqq">(Max Stierner) </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="sqq">“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="sqq">(K.Marx) </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="sqq">“The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="sqq">(Charles Fourier) </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Don't forget to make a list of those topics from the Industrial Revolution you have learned in class which appear in the film. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finally, write a composition (only 250 words) about the comparison which can be made between those topics and the situation resulting from the Depression Chaplin lived . Some ideas you can use are: What did Chaplin think about industrialisation? Which social class is Chaplin's favourite one according to the film? Can you conceive of an ideological reason for Chaplin to defend this social class? Is the situation in the post-Depression USA similar to the one you have studied for England in the 18th century? What's your opinion about the film? Give arguments. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">You'll have to hand in this composition on the first Friday after Christmas holidays. </div>Aitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02670364865197803064noreply@blogger.com0