HIST 4451 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Spanish Empire, Tagus, Abbasid Caliphate
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Gades is on the coast and trades with the americas. The basques held out in the area of the kingdom of navarre. First unification comes about because of the conflict between of the carthaginians and the romans. Spain becomes the most romanized area outside of italy. More important that the aqueducts is the road system. Latin continued to be the language of church and higher education. Visigoths were the most romanized: they were frontier guardians. Ostrogoths come in behind and they take italy. 711- muslims conquer spain except for a little area. Abbasids overthrew all the umayyads but one who escapes to spain. Charlemagne wants to gain control over the frontier with against the muslims. Comes down and conquers the basque region- gets the southern pass. Fernando i of castile conquers the kingdom of leon 1035-1065. Alfonso vi of castile: under him leon and castile move down to the tajo river, alfonso vi was a horrible human being.
