Middle Ages - Roman Empire

I was a Byzantine emperor who reconquered parts of the former Western Roman Empire and reorganised Roman laws.

Justinian

I was a Visigothic king who converted to Catholicism in 587.

Reccared

I was the last Visigothic king, defeated by a Muslim army in 711.

Roderic

• These peoples occupied the Western Roman Empire.

• Independent kingdoms appeared.

• Many people moved to the countryside.

Germanic kingdoms

• Its religion appeared in the 7th century.

• Its empire spread through conquest.

• It controlled much of the Iberian Peninsula.

Islamic Empire

• It survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

• Its capital was Constantinople.

• Greek became its official language.

Byzantine Empire

Our capital was Córdoba. We were an independent emirate founded in 756 by a member of the Umayyad dynasty.

The Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba

I was the first Umayyad emir of Córdoba. I arrived in al-Andalus after the Abbasids took power in the Islamic Empire.

Abd al-Rahman I

I proclaimed myself caliph in 929 and made al-Andalus independent from Baghdad's religious authority.

Abd al-Rahman III

I was a Berber commander who crossed the Strait of Gibraltar with a Muslim army in 711.

Tarik

• We were a Muslim dynasty from North Africa that arrived in al-Andalus in 1086.

• We controlled most of the taifas.

The Almoravids

• We were a Muslim dynasty from North Africa that arrived in al-Andalus in 1147.

• We controlled most of the taifas.

The Almohads

• I was a military leader whose expeditions against Christian kingdoms were known as azeifas.

• To maintain peace, I forced the Christians kingdoms to pay taxes (parias).

• Thanks to this, I suppressed internal rebellions and Christian advances.

Al-Mansur

• We took control of the Islamic Empire in the middle of the 8th century.

• We are from Baghdad

The Abbasids

Our ruler became a caliph in 929. We experienced a golden age of economic, cultural and scientific development.

The Caliphate of Córdoba

We were created in 1031 when al-Andalus broke up into more than 25 independent Muslim kingdoms.

The Taifa kingdoms

• We were the Christian kingdoms and counties.

• We gradually conquered territory from al-Andalus.

The northern Christian kingdoms

Our state was established on the Iberian Peninsula after Muslim armies crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in 711.

Al-Andalus

• We were the rulers of Hispania.

• Our kingdom was defeated by Muslim forces during the conquest of 711–718.

The Visigothic Kingdom

We were the Muslim rulers of al-Andalus before Abd al-Rahman I proclaimed an independent emirate in 756.

The dependent Emirate of Córdoba