HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: La Convivencia, Almohad Caliphate, Mozarabs
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Came later, when it came it resulted in inquisition and removing all islamic and jewish people. Jews islamic and christians living in relative peacefulness. 711, date of first wave of islamic expansion reaches spain during umayyad caliphate. Umayyad caliphate overtook the visigoths that were living in spain. Now there is arabic people, berbers in spain. All spain taken by islam, except small christian kingdoms in north. Kingdoms tried to fight back, get upper hand, eventually became stronger. 3 dozen taifa, very small, rival, no unity, too small to fight christianity. Christian kingdoms expand, eventually force some taifa to pay tribute to them in return for military protection. These are now newly important cities in al-andalus, increasing fragmentation in islamic. Mozarabs, christians in region adopting islamic culture (not religion) and spoke arabic (arabized christians) Relative tolerance, all people of the book, all worship the same god. Expand and chip away at borders of islamic states.
