Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Some selected fragments of Isabel

Here you have some fragments of the TV series Isabel. They show some important moments of the Catholic Monarchs' reign. I recommend you to watch the whole series, because it's an extraordinary work and historically accurate. On RTVE.es website, you can also find a lot of extra explanations about the period, curiosities and a complete familiy tree to know the most important figures of the period. 
Oath of allegiance to Joanna, Henry IV's daughter:
Ávila's Farce: Henry IV's symbolic deposition:
Juan Pacheco declares war on Henry IV when Beltrán de la Cueva comes back to the court:
Los Toros de Guisando Agreement: peace between Henry IV and Isabella, his half-sister:
Isabella proclaims herself queen:
Segovia Agreement:
Establishment of the Inquisition in Castile:
Surrender of Granada:
Expulsion of the Jews:
Christopher Columbus reaches the island of Guanahaní:
Treaty of Tordesillas, signed with John II of POrtugal:
Marriage alliances:
Joanna has an attack when her husband Philip comes back to the Low Countries without her:
Joanna is increasingly rebellious against her parents:
Isabella I's death:

Sunday, October 19, 2014

AN INTERESTIG VIDEO TO THINK ABOUT




While I was seeing a video about the Mith of the Cave (Mito de la Caverna), Platón,  I saw this interesting film about education and the educational systems that the States institute in the schools.

I think that this video is a good way to start thinking about what is neccessary to change!

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Some videos about the Roman Empire and Hispania

These are some interesting videos about the Roman Empire and romanization:

- The fisrt one includes an animated map where you can watch the evolution of the Roman Empire throughout time:



- This one is the video we were watching in class last Friday. It's called The Ancient Roman Empitre in the West and includes the effects of romanization in Gaul and Hispania




-This is a link to a Youtube channel called Ruta Bética Romana. They have a lot of videos in Spanish about the Roman presence in the Baetica province. You can learn a lot from all the Andalusian cities  in Roman times: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBnVYUmPpWYIVDDYW8ods6A


- And finally a video in Spanish about how to make garum, the sauce the Romans loved:

Monday, October 13, 2014

Some interesting documentaries about prehistoric sites in Spain

Here you will find the link to some short documentaries from a TVE series called El túnel del tiempo, broadcasted on La 2 program La Aventura del Saber. They are very didactic and if you're interested, you can learn more about some of the most important archeological sites from different periods of the Pehistory of the Iberian Peninsula. I can't embed the videos, beacuse the website doesn't allow me to do it. 


- LA DRAGA: Neolithic site in Extremadura. 

- LOS MILLARES: Chalcolithic site in Almería


Ruins of Los Millares

- CASTRO DE LAS COGOTAS: Metal Ages site in Ávila

- MINAS DE GAVÀ: the oldest mines in Europe. Archeological site of the Metal Ages

- LAS ERAS DEL ALCÁZAR: Metal Ages site in Úbeda



- L' ILLETA DELS BANYETS: Broze Age site located on a small penisula in El Campello (Alicante)



L´Illeta dels Banyets


- HUMANEJOS: Neolithic site in Parla (Madrid)

- LA SARGA: Epipaleolithic site in Jijona, Alicante.

Recent news about Prehistory

To end with Prehistory, here you have some recent news:

- Some recent studies about cave paintings found in Sulawesi, Indonesia, have confirmed that they are older than the ones found in Europe. Up to this moment, the Upper Paleolithic French-Cantabrian cave paintings were considered to be the oldest, with an antiquity of around 30,000. The oldest painting in Europe is a rhino found in Chauvet Cave, dated to 32,400 years. 




The cave paintings in Sulawesi include a babirusa (pig-deer) dated to 35,400 years and another animal, similar to a pig, dated to 35,700 years: 


Cave painting of a babirusa

Babirusa painting

But there are still older paintings in Sulawesi, representing  stencils of hands, dating to 39,900 years. The oldest stencils of hands in Europe have been found in El Castillo Cave, in Cantabria, and they date to 37,300 years. 

Stencils of hands in El Castillo Cave


The only record Europe still holds is a red disc painted on the ceiling of El Castillo Cave, dating to 40,800 years.

Here you have a short video from Nature magazine about Sulawesi paintings:


 

And this is an article from Scientific American magazine: 


- A film called El Maestro de Altamira is being shot in Altamira Cave. It's a documentary that will tell the story of the discovery of the paintings and explain the main theories about their meaning. It will be directed by  José Luis  López Linares and his crowd has been allowed to film inside the cave for six alternative days. The filming is something extraordinary, because Altamira has been closed since 2002 to preserve the cave from pollution. Last year the cave was reopened to the visits, but they are limited to 5 persons per week. Experts are studying the impact of these visits and the resukts of their research will be used to decide to reopen the cave to the public or keep it closed. 

Here you have a documentary bout Altamira showed on the program Crónicas on La 2 some weeks ago: