HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Iberian Peninsula, Averroes, Mehmed The Conqueror
15 Nov 2020
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His final assault on constantinople used hungarian built cannons. They had done so in the decades leading up to its fall. Most brought their wealth and books to northern italy. Byzantium"s fall added to the growth of greek loving italian humanism. Greek christians in eastern europe now fell under ottoman rule: ottoman europe. Ottoman holdings in europe only increased post 1453. Relations between islam and christianity played out differently. Small christian kingdoms in northern spain threatened al-andalus: al-andalus. Much of the iberian peninsula was ruled by muslims. This dated back to the umayyads in 711. The peninsula was a mess of small principalities now. The umayyads ruled out of cordoba for centuries. New arrivals came from north africa: almohads and almoravids. These groups re-drew the political map of the peninsula. In philosophy, thinkers like averroes pushed rationalism to its limits. In mysticism, ibn arabi went further than the mystics of latin christianity.
