Europe in 1491 - Vocabulary

a reference to Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, whose marriage represented the crucial step toward the creation of a powerful, united Spain

• fall of Granada

• conquistador

• the Catholic Monarchs

• centralization

a knight or soldier fighting for God and glory in the service of a Portuguese or Spanish monarch, heaped in the crusader culture of the Reconquista

• foreign policy

• conquistador

• nationalism

• Tudors

the conquest, by the Catholic Monarchs, of the last Moorish holdout on the Iberian Peninsula in 1492

• nationalism

• Magna Carta

• feudal

• fall of Granada

the concentration of political and military power around a single authority (like a monarchy or a governing legislative body)

• foreign policy

• Magna Carta

• centralization

• nationalism

the sum of official positions of a state toward (a) other states and (b) all other territory outside of its jurisdiction

• foreign policy

• nationalism

• feudal

• centralization

identification with one's "nation," usually focused through the state apparatus, motivating support for the nation's interests as opposed to the interests of other "nations"

• Tudors

• standing army

• feudal

• nationalism

powerful and energetic English dynasty that ruled England from 1485 to 1603

• Magna Carta

• Tudors

• standing army

• the Catholic Monarchs

meaning "Great Charter," this 1216 document was intended to limit the English king's powers by spelling out those limitations in writing

• feudal

• Tudors

• Magna Carta

• the Catholic Monarchs

a permanent, usually professional, military force made up of full-time soldiers and their commanders

• Hundred Years’ War

• Tudors

• fall of Granada

• standing army

descriptive for a system of usually decentralized political order organized around the network of lords and their vassals

• standing army

• nationalism

• feudal

• conquistador