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.
Tioga Lake. For the lake in the sub-Antarctic South Orkney Islands, see Tioga Lake (South Orkney Islands). Tioga Lake is a small glacial lake in the Inyo National Forest of Mono County, California, about two miles (3 km) north of the Tioga Pass entrance to Yosemite National Park. The lake bed is alongside State Route 120 in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northern California.