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What are some major events that occurred in 711? |
In 711 Tariq Ibn Ziyad lead 700 men (Berber warriors) to cross 8 miles in a muslim invasion. 12,000 muslims were defeated. |
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What happened in 785? |
The Great Mosque of Cordoba was constructed |
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What happens in 929? |
Abd al-Rahman lll declares Al-Andalus independent from the Islamic Empire and names himself caliph. |
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What happens in 1236? |
Christians defeat Almohads in the battle of Las Navas de Talosa. And the Christians take over Cordoba and build a church in the center of the great mosque. |
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What happens in 1492? |
Granada falls to christians; Muslim Spain is over. Isabel and Ferdinand are now in power and they begin the Spanish Inquisition. |
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Name a Geographical feature and a fact about how they affected the course of history. |
Mountainous region in Granada: Protected the muslim taigas from being invaded. |
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Name a Geographical feature and a fact about how they affected the course of history. |
Perinees: Mountains: Ice was taken from mountains to make sherbet for people of the town. |
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Name a Geographical feature and a fact about how they affected the course of history. |
Mediterranean: There were many imports from Baghdad |
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Name a Geographical feature and a fact about how they affected the course of history. |
Spain Borders France: Lots of boat travel and trade took place |
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Name a Geographical feature and a fact about how they affected the course of history. |
I.P. is 7 1/2 miles from Morocco: The almohads had an very convenient, short boat ride to get to the I.P. which made the process of traveling there so much easier. But they then were attacked because of their secularism. |
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Conversos |
People who convert to Christianity so they wouldn't be hunted down by the Spanish Inquisition and then expelled from Spain. |
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Tributary |
A person or place that pays a fee to a place so they won't invade. |
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Martyr |
A person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs. |
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Black Plague |
A plague caused by rats that ran through the wells infecting the water. The plague was blamed on the Jews. The rats were infected by fleas that were infected. The plague killed half of the population and the plague spread through all of Europe. Anti judaism came to a fault |
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Christian take over of Toledo |
- Lead by Alphonso the 6th - Wanted to purify Spain of Jews - He Values jews and muslims (diversity) - They take control of half the peninsula - the muslims being invaded ask for help from N. African muslims |
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Examples of Purification |
- Spanish Inquisition expelling Jews from Spain - Pope declares Spain a crusading zone - South of Spain: Purity: Almohads come to help I.P. thinking they're gonna help, the see all the secularism taking place and as extremist Muslims, they were offended and sought to kill secular muslims (thinking they shouldn't live |
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Almohads |
They're extremist muslims. They were disgusted at how secular some muslims were to they went on a killing rampage. Came from N. Africa. They were defeated by Christians at Las Navas de Talosa. |
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Spanish Inquisition |
They went around questioning whether or not you were a true christian. If you weren't you would die, suffer, be burned alive, brutally "taken care of". You convert or you leave/ die. |
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Synagogues in Toledo |
Decorated to look like Muslim art because of cross-over in religion. Muslim artisans who worked to make synagogues which have arabic and hebrew writing. |
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Crusades |
The purpose was to purify Jerusalem of all non-religion holy war. For example in 1150 -1250 anyone occupying Jerusalem that aren't Christians should/must be killed |
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Maimonides, Ibn Rushd, and Tomas Aquinas |
All of them were part of an import movement to unify the view of the world (religion and science). They all translated Aristotle. They believed you could live by science and religion. |
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The Marriage of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella |
With their marriage they unite Aragon and Castille They formed the Spanish Inquisition Aragon and Castille are now the 2 largest taifa kingdoms |
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Battle of Alarcos |
1195: Muslims won. Christians suffer a major defeat. They are forced to a treaty. This unifies armies across Europe to come help defeat the Muslims once and for all. Spain is declared a crusading zone. |
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Ottoman Turks take over Constantinople |
Muslims against Christians in 1435. Crusades change from west to east |
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Poetry of Andalusia |
Descriptive and usually about nature/agriculture. The nature is being compared to war/battles. |
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Abd al rahman 1st |
He escaped from Damascus, serving as an Umayad leader. Unifies the peninsula. He's Arabic and African. Mixed background helps him to unify 2 groups. Great Mosque of Cordoba was built. |
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Abd al rahman 3rd |
He named himself caliph. He is the high point of the Golden Age. He employed Jews and Christians. He had a Jewish doctor who was a scholar and translator. He built a magnificent palace. |
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Aspects of a Golden Age; How it affected Spain |
There were scientific and engineering innovations. Agricultural revolution, poetry flourishing. Ancient texts were being translated. Major Productivity, wealth, garden palaces. Diversity within jobs. Sometimes there was tension. It was a rocky golden age (not just good good, it was more like good, bad, bad, great, great, good, relatively good, horrible, etc.). |
