After the Roman Empire in Western Europe fell, and Germanic kingdoms took its place, the Germanic people adopted Latin as a language more suitable to legal, and other more formal, expression.Old LatinThe earliest known form of Latin is Old Latin, which was spoken from the Roman Kingdom to ...
To learn of immense African kingdoms plundered of their people by slave traders, taken across the ocean bound in chains, brought to a place far different from there own, forced to adapt, to change, to become apart of this “new world.” To learn about and discover what became an immense...
into which we put a well-integrated region of the Roman Empire, and out of which emerges a patchwork of new kingdoms, cultures and languages. Explaining the workings of this change on
In the late 15th century most of Iberia was consolidated into three kingdoms—Portugal,Castile, andAragon—of which the last two were united through royal marriage. Butsocietyitself was still quite provincial. The most important entity for purposes of organization and affiliation was the city and ...
The larger islands were inhabited by the Arawak, a sedentary if modestly developed people with kingdoms, rulers, nobles, and obligatory labour mechanisms. Their ruler was called a cacique, and the Spaniards adopted the word and carried it with them wherever they went in the Americas. The ...
On their arrival in theWestern Hemispherein the late 15th and early 16th centuries, explorers from the Iberian kingdoms ofPortugalandCastile(Spain) encountered peoples—even entire empires—previously unknown to Europeans. A few of the Europeans wrote about the music and dance practices they observed...
More sophisticated poetry, following Italian Renaissance metres and themes, began to be written shortly thereafter in the capitals of the viceroyalties (or vice-kingdoms) of Mexico and Peru. These cities became the centres of European culture in America. The viceroyalty comprising what is today ...
More sophisticated poetry, following Italian Renaissance metres and themes, began to be written shortly thereafter in the capitals of the viceroyalties (or vice-kingdoms) of Mexico and Peru. These cities became the centres of European culture in America. The viceroyalty comprising what is today ...