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.
In 1864, Yosemite became California's first state park and in 1890 it was made a national park. It became America's third national park, only five days after the second one, Sequoia National Park in southern California, which John Muir was also instrumental in creating.