Valencian Community PAU History of Spain study guide
Valencian Community PAU History of Spain · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
La PAU de Historia de España en la Comunitat Valenciana es la prueba escrita que quienes cursan 2º de Bachillerato deben superar para acceder a la universidad, y también puede presentarse quien ya terminó el bachillerato o procede de ciclos formativos. No es una certificación de contenidos: es una prueba de acceso con valor ponderado, que condiciona la nota de admisión a los grados. The Valencian Community PAU History of Spain study guide has 8 sections and about 3,652 words.
01Prehistory and Antiquity: from Palaeolithic groups to Roman Hispania
This domain tests the sequence of prehistoric cultures in the Iberian Peninsula, the Iron Age peoples, colonial contacts and the Roman conquest and Romanisation of Hispania. The exam often asks you to date a culture, identify its material traces or explain how Roman rule changed indigenous society, sometimes from a map or a short source.
457 words, about 2 min02Medieval Iberia: Visigoths, Al-Andalus, the Reconquest and the Kingdom of Valencia
This domain tests the transition from the Visigothic kingdom to Al-Andalus, the Christian expansion and the construction of the Crown of Aragon, with particular weight on the Kingdom of Valencia. Expect questions on institutions, coexistence and conflict, and on the legal identity created by the Furs.
444 words, about 2 min03Early Modern Spain: Catholic Monarchs, Habsburgs, Golden Age, crisis and Bourbon reform
This domain tests the construction of the Spanish monarchy, the Habsburg imperial system, the cultural Golden Age, the seventeenth-century crisis and the Bourbon reforms. In the Valencian case, the Germanies, the expulsion of the Moriscos and the Nueva Planta are central.
448 words, about 2 min04Crisis of the Old Regime and Liberal Revolution: from 1808 to the Restoration
This domain tests the collapse of absolutism, the liberal revolution and the political instability of the nineteenth century. Questions often ask you to relate the War of Independence, the Cortes of Cádiz, the reign of Isabella II and the Democratic Sexennium to the broader struggle between liberalism and the old regime.
472 words, about 2 min05Restoration and early twentieth century: caciquism, regionalism, labour and Morocco
This domain tests the political system of the Restoration, the rise of Catalan and Valencian regionalism, the labour movement, colonial warfare in Morocco and the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. The exam expects you to explain how a formally constitutional system functioned through caciquism and how new social and territorial challenges undermined it.
509 words, about 3 min06Second Republic, Civil War and Francoism
This domain tests the Republican reform project, the Civil War and the Francoist regime. You should be able to explain the reforms and their opposition, the international dimension of the war, and the shift from autarky to desarrollismo, including the Valencian experience of war and dictatorship.
453 words, about 2 min07Transition to democracy and contemporary Spain: Constitution, autonomies, Valencian Statute and the EU
This domain tests the transition from Francoism to democracy, the Constitution of 1978, the State of Autonomies, the Valencian Statute of Autonomy and Spain’s integration into the European Union. Questions often ask you to explain how the transition combined reform with negotiation and how autonomy was constructed in Valencia.
456 words, about 2 min08Historical method and sources: commentary, maps, graphs, images and chronology
This domain tests the practical skills of the historian: classifying sources, analysing their content, contextualising them and writing a structured commentary. The exam may present a text, map, graph, image or statistical table and ask you to interpret it with historical vocabulary and correct chronology.
413 words, about 2 min