Religions in Spain - Quiz I

Find Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, France,

Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Pyrenees Mountains

Briefly describe 2 specific similarities between all three of these religious traditions

• Monotheistic, all believe in one god

• Abraham is seen as an important religious figure

  • Abraham is considered one of the founding fathers of the Jewish people

  • Christians view Abraham as an important example of faith in god

  • Abraham, called Ibrahim in Arabic, is considered an important prophet and an example of devotion and obedience to God

One fundamental disagreement between Christianity and Judaism

Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah and the Son of God, while Judaism does not accept Jesus as the Messiah or as divine

One fundamental disagreement between Islam, on the one hand, and Christianity and Judaism, on the other hand

Muslims do not consider the Old Testament to be their scripture.

• Instead, Islam is based primarily on the Qur’an, which Muslims believe is the final revelation from God.

• However, Islam still recognizes many figures from the Old Testament, such as Abraham and Moses, as prophets.

Describe a historical instances in which (a) the Iberian population was, in fact, quite

diverse but (b) outsiders OR later generations characterized it as homogeneous

Roman Iberia — roughly 1st century BCE–5th century CE

• The population of the Iberian Peninsula included many different groups, including indigenous Iberian and Celtic peoples, Romans/Italians, Phoenician and Carthaginian communities, Greeks, Jews, and people from other parts of the Roman Empire

• Spanish and Portuguese national histories sometimes portrayed ancient Iberia as having a relatively unified population

• Simplified the much more diverse population that actually lived in Iberia before the modern nations of Spain and Portugal existed.

Describe ANOTHER historical instances in which (a) the Iberian population was, in fact, quite diverse but (b) outsiders OR later generations characterized it as homogeneous

Visigoths

List 2 names for “Iberia” (not including “Iberia”) that we have learned so far and explain what you know about each one—most importantly, who used it

• Hesperia: the greeks and the westernmost start

• Sefarad: Jewish name for Spain

• Hispania: Roman province

People create myths about the past to serve their needs in the present. Provide one example of a myth that Christians or Jews in medieval Iberia created. Explain:

• The content of the myth

• Who created it and when and where

• What purposes it served

• Myth: Jews killed Jesus, the devil and the aqueduct

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Provide one example of acculturation that we discussed in class. Be sure to describe our historical evidence fo

Jewish acculturation in Roman rule, jews using latin on the stone but also using Jewish symbols