Session Four - Iberian History

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Session Four - Iberian History
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Iberia

• Under Roman rule until 409 AD
• Visogoths (German Barbarians) invade Iberia and
  control the peninsula until 711

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Muslim Invasion in 711- jihad
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Muslim Spain, 711-1492

• Spain and Portugal flourished while rest of
  Europe locked into Dark Ages
• Why? Moor connection with advanced scientific
  world of Middle East
• Tolerance religious plurality
• Urbanism Cordoba, Seville, Granada
• Intellectualism Science, Math, Astronomy

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Reconquista / Cantabria
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Reconquista, 711-1492
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Iberia in 1492 politically, religiously
consolidated modern nations
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Iberia poised
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Iberians at Sea 1300s and 1400s
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Technologies

• Arabic origins
• Compass
• Sounding depths
• Sand glasses
• Rudder design
• The Caravel

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THE Innovation lateen sail
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Iberian Techology

• Map making
• Navigational
• charts
• Geography
• Caravel

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The Western Edge
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But what about motives

• What compels people to do things?
• Iberians had the history
• They had the technology
• They had the geography
• But why?

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Gold
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Africa
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What else did Africans want that Europeans could
give them?
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Liquor and Guns
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Europeans in Africa Atlantic colonies

• Azores
• Madeira
• Canaries
• Capo Verde

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Stepping-Stone Theory
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God Reconquista - Converts
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Militant Catholicism

• Santiago
• Matamoros

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Glory and the Iberian soldier