Xeografia E Historia 3 Eso Santillana [DIRECT]

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.

Then, I saw him. A knight with a long beard, exiled by his king: . He rode past me with a hundred mesnaderos (warriors). They didn't build a castle; they built a simple iglesia románica (Romanesque church) using my limestone cousins. xeografia e historia 3 eso santillana

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. This was the golden age of the conquista