Aztec ch. 3

Time period where everyone was mostly Christian

418 - 711 CE

Year when a Muslim force landed in / conquered most of Spain and overthrew Visigoths

711

Muslim force

Indigenous North Africans and Arabs

Muslims changed “Iberian Peninsula” to …

Al - Andalus

3 practices in Islam

Pray , Give , Fast

3 Characteristics in Islam

Honesty , kindness , respect

3 important cities

Córdoba , Seville , Granada

5 countries

Spain , Egypt , Zanzibar , Indonesia , Africa

Reflected Islamic values

Music , art , architecture

Valued in Muslim society

Learning

Name of first university , where it was established , year , how many years before the first university in Europe

Al - Azhar , Cairo , 971 , 200

Muslim scholars studied …

Medicine , science , translated books of Greeks

When did the caliphate in Spain begin to decline

Early 1000s

What led to civil unrest

Series of ineffective rulers

Reconquista became …

1. A way for Christian kingdoms to expand their power and influence

2. A war based on religious differences

3. A new way of fighting with the Spaniards becoming the deadliest force in Europe

Spanish Inquisition

A state - run system of courts where Church officials put believers of religious ideas other than Catholicism on trial

Muslims and Jews had two choices …

Convert or be exiled

Jews abd Muslims made up most of the ..

• Educated middle class

• Most were financiers and business people

Losing skilled workers made it difficult for Spain to …

Maintain economic growth at the end of the 1400s

Islam was a … to the unity of Catholicism

Threat

When and what did the Spanish found itself without

1492 - gold and silver reserves

Spanish nobles had two ways to support themselves

1. Through war ( fought for monarch and was rewarded )

2. Through land ( owned land and took share of the crops grown )

End of Reconquista nobles were struggling with…

1. Shortage of good farmland in Spain

2. Demanding to work with their hands

Not all the people who took the risk of going to the americas were seeking riches but they also ..

Wanted to make a name for themselves and earn respect in Spanish society