Historia 3 Eso Santillana - Xeografia E

The Christian wind blew from the north. First, the King of León. Then, the Castilians. In 1085, I was on the frontier. No one lived here. It was tierra de nadie (no man’s land)—the “Desert of the Duero.”

This was the golden age of the conquista hidráulica (hydraulic conquest). For the first time, I saw the earth transform. Wheat was replaced by naranjos (orange trees) and algodón (cotton). The mozárabes (Christians under Muslim rule) farmed the vega (fertile plain) using norias (waterwheels). The climate didn’t matter anymore; human engineering had won.

A new sound echoed across the Duero: the adhan (call to prayer). The Berbers rode south to north. My hill became a markaz (military outpost) for the Caliphate of Córdoba. They didn’t build a cathedral on me; they built a small atalaya (watchtower) and a acequia (irrigation ditch) that channeled water from the river below. xeografia e historia 3 eso santillana

In 1492, the bells rang. A man named Colón had found something. My hill was old, tired, but proud. The Reconquista was over. The world had just gotten much, much larger. Connection to the student’s reality

I watched the calzadas romanas (Roman roads) slice across the plateau like straight, gray scars. I felt the hooves of horses carrying gold from Las Médulas. For 400 years, I listened to Latin, the smell of olive oil from ánforas , and the rhythm of the legionaries’ boots. Then, the boots stopped. The bárbaros (Germanic peoples) came. The wall fell. I was alone again. Connection to Unit 2 (Al-Ándalus) The Christian wind blew from the north

But I felt a tremor in the 10th century. Almanzor’s armies marched past me to burn Santiago de Compostela. Then, a slow decay. The Caliphate fractured into Reinos de Taifas . My tower fell into ruin. Connection to Unit 2 (Los reinos cristianos y la Reconquista)

Those two pages are not separate. The páramo created the Mesta . The Mesta financed the Catholic Monarchs. The Catholic Monarchs sent Columbus. And Columbus changed everything. In 1085, I was on the frontier

On page 12, there is a photo of a hill just like me. It shows the páramo (high plateau), the campiña (low plain), and the ribera (riverbank). On page 48, there is a painting of El Cid.