SOCIAL SCIENCE 6º

Social Science The world around us: Spain and Europe

SPAIN

RIVERS OF SPAIN  RELIEF OF SPAIN  GAMES  MORE GAMES

Study: Ø  Spain is located in the Iberian Peninsula in the south west of Europe. The three main Spanish landforms are The Meseta Central divides in two: Submeseta Norte and Submeseta Sur, Depresión Del Ebro and Depresión Del Guadalquivir. Ø  The archipelagos are The Balearic Islands and The Canary Islands. Ø  Spain has two territories on the African coast, Ceuta and Melilla. Ø  The  Depresión del Ebro is surrounded by  Montes Vascos, los Pyrenees, The Cordilleras Costero-Catalanas and Sistema Ibérico. La Depresión del Guadalquivir is surrounded by  Sierra Morena  and los Sistemas Béticos.  Ø  Spain has Mediterranean and template climate. Other climates are Oceanic, Mountain and Subtropical. Ø  The most important rivers are: Miño, Duero, Tajo, Guadiana, Guadalquivir, Segura, Júcar, Turia y Ebro. Ø  The landscape of Spin shows deciduous trees (oak, beech) in humid regions and evergreen trees (holm, cork, pine) in the Mediterranean zones.

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Social Science We are entrepreneurs

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Businesses BUSINESS A BUSINESS IS ANY ORGANISATION THAT MAKES GOODS OR PROVIDES SERVICES IN EXCHANGE FOR MONEY. TYPES OF BUSINESS SOLE TRADERS People who are self-employed work for themselves and have no boss. (photographers, plumbers) SMALL AND  MEDIUM SIZE ENTERPRISES (SME) They are small business with less than 250 employees.              Family business              Cooperatives where the workers are also the owners.              Limited-liability companies (LLC) that have many owners who share profits and losses. LARGE ENTERPRISES They have more than 250 employees.             National company (in one country)              Multinational company (in different countries.

Business organization Business usually set up departments covering the main areas of their activities. They all work together to achieve the goals.

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Social Science Modern Age and The Contemporary Times

Does any of this “ring a bell”?  TIME LINE

MODERN AGES MODERN AGES XV-XVIII CENTURIES BEGINNING THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA (1492) THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE TO THE TURKS (1453) THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION (1517) ECONOMY AND  SOCIETY DURING THE 15TH AND 16TH CENTURIES MANY GEOGRAPHIC DISCOVERIES TOOK PLACE, IN 1492 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS DISCOVERED AMERICA. SOCIETY WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE GROUPS:   Ø  NOBILITY (ROYALTY, MEMBERS OF THE UPPER CLASS)   Ø  CLERGY (BISHOPS AND PRIESTS)                                            THEY HAVE SPECIAL PRIVILEGES.       Ø  COMMONERS: BURGHERS (MERCHAN, DOCTORS, LAWYERS ) AND PEASANTS (LIVED IN THE VILLAGES, USUALLY VERY POOR)) POLITICS, RELIGION AND SCIENCE Ø  THE ORIGIN OF MODERN STATES. Ø  EUROPEAN CHRISTIANS DIVIDED INTO CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS. Ø  BEGINS THE DEVELOPED OF MODERN SCIENCE: A NEW CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC MOVEMENT DEVELOPED, IT WAS CALLED HUMANISM. Ø  SOME IMPORTANT NAMES WERE COPERNICUS, LEONARDO DA VINCI, MIGUEL SERVET, GALILEO, DESCARTES, … THE CATHOLIC MONARCHS IN SPAIN THEY WERE ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE S OF AUTHORITARIAN MONARCHY EN EUROPE. Ø  THE CROWNS OF CASTILLE AND ARAGÓN WERE UNITED. Ø  THE RECONQUISTA ENDED AND THEY EXPANDED ITS TERRITORIES AND POWER THROUGHOUT EUROPE AND AMERICA. Ø  THEIR HEIRS, CARLOS I AND FELIPE II INHERITED A GREAT EMPIRE. Ø  THE CRISIS OF THE HISPANIC MONARCHY CAME IN THE 17TH CENTURY UNDER THE RULE OF THE LAST HABSBURG KINGS. Ø  THE MONARCHY RECOVERED WITH ARRIVAL OF THE HOUSE OF BOURBON IN THE 18TH CENTURY. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789) AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION MARKED THE BEGINNING OF CONTEMPORARY TIMES

THE AGE OF EXPLORATION

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CONTEMPORARY TIMES THE FRENCH REVOLUTION THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789. People rose up against the injustices of Absolutism and they organised a government based on the ideas of the Enlightenment, such as equal rights and liberties for all citizens. These ideas were defended in two texts: the Declaration of the rights of Man and  of the citizens, and the Constitution of 1792

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION It started in the late 18th century in England with the invention of the steam engine.

Changes in the Contemporary times TECHNICAL AND MEDICAL ADVANCES •          Vaccines •         Agriculture As a consecquence: demographic explosion. POLITICAL MOVEMENTS •         Suffrage: the right to vote for their government. •         The labour movement: factory workers united to demand a decent working and living conditions. SOCIAL CHANGES

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