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AP 23.511 Responses to Coerced Labor – St. Martin de Porres
St. Martín de Porres (1579 – 639), was a Peruvian lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. Martín de Porres was the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a black servant. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, and all those seeking racial harmony.
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AP 23.506 Labor System – Heimler (Labor, Slavery, and Caste in Spanish America)
IMPORTANT – although this video belongs to AP US History (APUSH) it overlaps with AP WORLD History for 4.4. Continue reading Post ID 20577
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AP 23.498 Pirate – Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era.
Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation. With his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, he claimed what is now California for the English and inaugurated an era of conflict with the Spanish on the western coast of the Americas, an area that had previously been largely unexplored by western shipping.
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AP 23.420 Baile Española (Flamenco and Pasodobles)
Flamenco is an art form native to the Spanish regions of Andalusia, Extremadura ,and Murcia. It includes cante (singing), toque (guitar playing), baile (dance), jaleo (vocalizations), palmas (handclapping) and pitos (finger snapping).
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AP 23.354 Renaissance – Humanism and the Catholic Church
Humanism is applied to the overreaching social and intellectual philosophies of the Renaissance era, in which the beauty of the individual was elevated to preeminence. To put it in simpler terms, humanism is the belief that man has beauty, worth, and dignity. Therefore, life here on Earth should be cherished rather than simply endured.
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AP 23.343 Absolutism – The Russian Czar (Tsarina) – (Catherine the Great)
Catherine II was empress of Russia, and she led her country into the political and cultural life of Europe, carrying on the work begun by Peter the Great. She was an ENLIGHTENED MONARCH!
Under her reign, Russia expanded its territories and modernized, following the lead of Western Europe.
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AP 23.340 Russia – Peter the Great (Czar or Tsar)
Peter the Great was a Russian czar in the late 17th century, who is best known for his extensive reforms in an attempt to establish Russia as a great nation.
It is said that Peter the Great grabbed Russia kicking and screaming out of the Middle Ages. Continue reading Post ID 20577
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AP 23.332 Russia – The Cossacks
The Cossacks were Russian military horsemen who saw themselves as Orthodox Christian warriors, in voluntary service to the tsar. Repressed after the Bolshevik Revolution, since the collapse of the Soviet Union they have re-emerged and are trying to revive Cossack traditions.
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AP 23.319 Mughal Empire – Taj Mahal
Originally built by Emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb his wife, the Taj Mahal remains an architectural marvel of the modern world.
Illustrative Example (p 70) – Arts and Monumental Architecture: (Mughal mausolea and mosques)
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