ANTH-150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Olive Oil, Bourgeoisie, Christian Catholic Church Of Switzerland
23 Feb 2016
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Periods of difficulty: military invasions and long term occupations. History, ideology and religion used to justify invasion/liberation: invaders imposed their religions and ideologies. Western europe: iberian peninsula: phoenicians (800-1000 bce, greek traders (600 bce, carthaginians (300 bce, romans (218-400 bce) Phoenician merchants: oil, wine, jewelry, ivory, traded for gold, solver, copper, and tin. Romans introduced christianity to iberian peninsula (250 ce); latin: olive oil, wine, wool, and metals exported. 400 ce visigoths and germanic peoples entered western europe: established their own kingdoms in present day spain and portugal. Early 8th century, muslim moors conquest of iberia: from northern africa to sicily and iberia. Iberia divided: muslims and christian (jews: most of iberian peninsula muslim land, christian and jews pushed north, cordoba, muslim capital. Muslims extended religious tolerance: many christians converted to islam, arabic widely spoken in iberia, spanish and arabic words ojala! (oh ala!) Muslims and christians were different: urban vs.
