Instructions:
1 – Make a quick summary (2-3 sentences) of each document using at least two key words below:
Document 1: ‘Mediterranean basin’ ; ‘Visigoths’ ; ‘632’ ; ‘7th-10th century’
Document 2: ‘Umeyyad’ ; ‘Caliphate’ ; ‘Muhammad’ ; ‘prophet’ 30
Document 3: ‘Guadalete’ ; 711 ; ‘Roderic’ ; ‘Tariq’ ; battle’
Document 4: ‘Còrdoba’ ; Al-Andalus’ ; ‘mosque’ ; ‘capital’
Document 5: ‘Mosque’ ; Cordoba’ ; ‘Church’ ; ‘architecture’
Document 6: ‘Christian’ ; muslim’ ; ‘jews’ ; ‘rights’ ; ‘slave’
Document 7: ‘Exchanges’ ; tolerance’ ; ‘music’ ; ‘trade’ ; ‘Damas’
2 – Answer the questions on your activity sheet
3 – Using the answers of the questions,relate the conquest of Hispania by the Umayyad caliphs.
Document 1: Spread of Islam (7th-10th c.)
Document 2: The caliphs and the Umayyad Caliphate
Document 3: The battle of Guadalete
Document 4: Còrdoba
Document 5: The great Mosque of Còrdoba
Document 6: Non-muslim in Al-Andalus
Document 7: Spain during the Arabic umayyad reign
