Spanish Cset 2 Flashcards
Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico
Greater Antilles
Panama capital and currency
Ciudad de Panama - Balboa
Dominican Republic
Island of Santo Domingo
Capitol: Santo Domingo
Agriculture: Sugarcane
Currency: Dominican Peso
Cuba
Last Spanish Colony in the new world
Capital: Havana
Currency: Peso
Dictatorship
Puerto Rico
Unincorporated U.S Territory
Capital: San Juan
Currency: U.S. Dollar
Guatemala
Capital: Ciudad De Guatemala
Currency: Quetzal
Agriculture: Coffee, Sugarcane, banana
El Salvador
Capital: San Salvador
Currency: Colon
Agriculture: Coffee
Smallest country in Central America
Costa Rica
Capital: San Jose
Currency: Colones
Agriculture: Pineapple, Cocoa
Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
South America Countries that speak Spanish
Guyana, Surnam, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil
Non Spanish speaking countries in South America
Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
Central America
A fleet of ships who were vary strong but were defeated by Queen Elizabeth the 1st. This started the demise of the Spanish Empire
Spanish Armada
Big influence in Europe Carlos II de España hasta Felipe V
Bourbons
Spanish Author
Generation of 98
These artist affected by moral, political, and social crisis in Spain
Their message was that Spain needed to abandon their traditions and integrate into Europe
Miguel de Unamuno
Purpose was to discover and punish heretics and crimes against blasphemy, bigamy and forbidden books.
Abolished in 1843
Inquisition
Spanish Dictator 1936 - 1939 defeated the republic and made Spain an absolute dictatorship until his death in 1975
General Francisco Franco
President of Argentina
1868 - 1874
Writer and Politician
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Writer from Uruguay
Influenced by Edgar Alan Poe
Horacio Quiroga
Estados Unidos Mexicanos
(Mexico)
Capital: D.F. Ciudad De Mexico
Economic: Agricultural, Mining, Tourism
Currency: Mexican Peso
Known for Aztecs, Mayans, Chichimecas
Nicaragua
Capital: Managua
Currency: Cordoba
Agriculture: Cotton, Sugar, Banana
First Central American country to gain independence
Ecuador
Capital: Quito
Currency: U.S. Dollar
Agriculture: Banana
Discovered by Spaniard in 1527
Colombia
Capital: Bogota
Currency: Colombian Peso
Agriculture: Coffee, Corn, Rice
Fist Spanish speaking country in South America below Panama
Spaniards called it “Nueva Granada”
Uruguay
Capital: Montevideo
Currency: Uruguay Peso
Establish as a country in 1825
Venezuela
Capital: Caracas
Currency: Bolivar
Agriculture: Cocoa
Declared independence in 1811
Argentina
Capital: Buenos Aires
Currency: Argentine Peso
Economy: Livestock, Oil
Known for: Andes Mountains
Spanish rule until 1816
Paraguay
Capital: Asunción
Currency: Guarani
Official Language: Spanish, Guarani
Landlocked a river divided it east and west.
Fought Spain and Argentina
Bolivia
Capital: La Paz
Currency: Boliviano
Economy: Silver
National Language: Spanish, Quechua, Aymara
Peru
Capital: Lima
Currency: Sol
Economy: Agriculture
Language: Spanish, Quechua
Known for: Andes mountain and Machu Pichu
Cantante Cubana
Salsera
Salsa Queen
Celia Cruz
Boterismo
Colombian
Painter, Matador
Exaggerates volumes
Fernando Botero
Spanish opera singer
Educated in Mexico
Pacido Domingo
Mexican Painter
Bright Colors
Influence by surrealism
Married Diego Rivera
Frida Khalo
Argentina
Writer/Painter
El Tunel
Ernesto Sabato
17th century
Portraits
“Las Meninas”
Influenced Dalí & Picasso
Diego Valazques
Roman influence
Moorish
Romanesque/Gothic
Gaudí
Spanish Architecture
Spanish Started 17th century
Opera/Theatre
Went to Cuba in the 19th century
Zarzuela
Luis Buñuel, Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodóvar
Spanish Cinema
Created in 1713
Regulates Spanish language
Royal Spanish Academy
Spanish speaking countries use this form of measurement
Metric/Imperial System
Nationalist vs Republicans
Nationalist won the war
Divided the country
Spain became a dictatorship for 40 years until Franco died
Spanish Civil war
Mexican painter/muralist
Politics influenced his work
Jose Clemente Orozco
Spanish painter
Painted what he wanted, not what he was told
Francisco Goya
Famous Mexican Muralist
Revaporization of Mexican roots
Diego Rivera
Singing poem from 1140 by an anonymous author takes place during the reconstruction
El canto de mio Cid
Baleares, Canarias, Ceuta, & Melia
Spanish Possessions
Author Don Q
Fought in a war, lost one arm “El Manco”
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish novelist
Tried to introduce naturalism
First woman to graduate from the university
Emilia pardo Bazam
Spanish author
Realist novels and chronicles mixed reality and fiction
“Dona Perfecta”
“Gloria Fortunata y Jacinta”
“Misericordia”
Benito Perez Galdos
Alfonso el Sabio
King of Castilla-Leon
Made Castilian the office language of Spain
Alfonso X (The 10th)
Spain wanted to recover the land from the Muslim who invaded in 711 AD
Granada was the last city
La Reconquista
711 AD the Muslims from Africa invaded Spain. Under Arab control until 1492.
Arab influence is everywhere in Spain and it culture.
“Al”
Mosque en Cordoba
The Muslims in Spain
Iberian Peninsula
Spanish language originated here
Spain
Writer, drama, poetry, theater, super-realist
Reality and Fantasy
“La Casa de Bernarda Alba”
Assassinated for being a Communist
Federico Garcia Lorca
1320’s
Juan Ruiz
Commentary on love and its behavior
El Libro De Buen Amor
Writer from Argentina
Essays, novels, reality, fantasy and the absurd
Julio Cortázar
Poet, Playwright
Founded the Teatro Nacional de España
Felix Lope de Vega
Artist inspired by El Greco & Goya
Hated Franco & the fascistas
Pablo Picasso
Pre-Colombian writer explained the Mayan myth that explains the creation of the world
Popol Vuh
12th -13th century
Moorish in Spain
Alhambra
Peruvian novelist
Isabel Presley (Enriqe Iglesia’s mom) Girlfriend
Examines the vulgarity of human nature
Mario Vargas Llosa
Born in Peru but wrote in Chile Fantasy/Reality
“La Casa de Los Espíritus”
Isabel Allende
Artist
Surrealist
Painter
Barcelona
Dali