Urban History - meaning of term

Roman civitas

Term for the socio-political order or social reality of the people within a city

Visigoths

Term for the germanic people who migrated into the roman empire in the 4th century.

Umayyad Caliphate

Term for a form of islamic government that covered much of central asia, spain, and the upper edge of africa.

Qanat

Term for an ancient underground aqueduct system.

Maslama Al-Mayriti

Prominant muslim scholar from Andalus (muslim spain).

Convivencia

Term for cohabitation or coexistence.

Mudejar Architecture

Spanish style of architecture that blends islamic decorative traditions and christian structures that emerged in the 12th century

Legacy of Reconquista in Spanish Politics

Shaped a christian unification as the national identity that is commonly anti-muslim.

Black Death

Term for the bubonic plague.

1391 Pogrom

Term for the massacre of 1391 where the catholic populace engaged in mass violence towards the jews of spain. 

limpieza de sangre laws

Term meaning the statues of purity of blood which were a set of discriminatory laws that demanded people to prove that they were descendants of “old christians” in order to enter certain institutions.  

Spanish Inquisition

Term for the judicial institution put in place by Isabel 1 and Ferdinand targeting coversos and moriscos. 

Beatriz Galindo

Isabel I

Revolt of the comuneros

Decision to name Madrid Capital

El Escorial

Black Legend

Don Quixote

Duke of Lerma