The grant by the Spanish crown to a colonist of the labor of a specific number of Indians for a set period of time. Burckhardt said that the Renaissance gave rise to new secular and scientific approaches causing a full, whole nature of man.. Most scholars today find this description exaggerated and accuse him of overlooking the continuity between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Yosemite National Park (/joÊËsÉmáµ»ti/ yoh-SEM-it-ee) is a national park spanning portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in Northern California.
History of the Yosemite area. Galen Clark, the first guardian of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove, pictured in front of the Grizzly Giant Tree, Mariposa Grove around 1858-9. For over 3,000 years Sierra Miwok, Mono, Paiute, and other Native American groups have lived in the central Sierra Nevada region of California.