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  • A Mozarabe was.......
    A Christian who didn’t convert to Islam
  • al-Andalus had exports and imports - give two examples of each
    imports-slaves, spices and gold exports-textiles, oil, leather, pottery, weapons and wooden objects
  • In what area of public life were men and women kept separate?
    Public baths
  • What jobs did most Jews do?
    Finance, artisan craftwork and tradesmen
  • What basic infrastructure in particular showed that Moorish cities were advanced for the time?
    Water and sanitation systems
  • What happened at Poitiers in 732?
    The Moors were defeated by the Franks
  • What livestock farming was generally practised there?
    Sheep farming
  • What was the job of the Almotacén
    The person who controlled all the activities in the souk
  • What were Muladies?
    Christians who converted to Islam
  • Where was the decisive battle fought that allowed the Moors to conquer the Iberian Peninsula?
    Guadalete (Andalucia)
  • What two types of agriculture were practised in al-Andalus?
    rain-fed and irrigated crops
  • Under whose authority was the kingdom when al-Andalus was a Dependent Emirate?
    The Caliph of Damascus
  • Which people did the Muslims defeat to begin the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula?
    The Visigoths
  • What was the name of the ruler who established the Independent Emirate?
    Abd-al-Rahman I
  • What was an Almunia and who lived there?
    A country house on the outskirts of a Muslim city usually with big gardens
  • In which century was the decisive battle which allowed the Moors to conquer the Iberian Peninsula?
    The eighth century (711)
  • What was the name of the last Nasrid king?
    Boabdil
  • What were the alcaicería and the alhóndiga used for?
    Alcaicería = a building which stored luxury goods. Alhóndiga = a place where newly arrived merchants stayed.
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