Austrias - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:40:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Austrias - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Charles V, the most powerful ruler in Christendom https://historylab.es/charles-v-the-most-powerful-ruler-in-christendom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=charles-v-the-most-powerful-ruler-in-christendom Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:54:00 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/carlos-v-el-soberano-mas-poderoso-de-la-cristiandad/ Educational video about Charles V and his reign

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]]> 11.41 minute educational video produced by Academia Play in which, using the Visual Thinking technique, the reign of Charles I of Spain and V of Germany is recounted. On 18 September 1517 Charles arrives in Spain and becomes the first king of the Habsburg dynasty. After inheriting the Holy Roman Empire, the beginning of the popular revolts against the King is explained. During the video, Charles’ great goal of unifying the kingdom under Catholicism, domestic and foreign policy, and the wars for world hegemony are explained.

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]]> Means of transport in the 16th and 17th centuries https://historylab.es/means-of-transport-in-the-16th-and-17th-centuries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=means-of-transport-in-the-16th-and-17th-centuries Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:35 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/medios-de-transporte-en-los-siglos-xvi-y-xvii/ Access to the collaborative blog of IES Miguel Catalán to celebrate the IV Centenary of Miguel de Cervantes where the different means of transport in the 16th and 17th centuries are explained

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]]> Collaborative blog of IES Miguel Catalán to celebrate the IV Centenary of Miguel de Cervantes where different topics are explained. Among them, we have this short article about the different means of transport in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. With the beginning in the 16th century of the post office service linking the places where the Spanish Court resided with the main European urban centres, this post office service was extended to other Spanish cities. The conditions of the terrain and other conditioning factors such as the capacity of the horses would play an important role in the development of what we can call the first “taxis” in history.

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