LIST OF ANDALUSIAN THINKERS AND RULERS

CHOSE ONE OF THE CHARACTERS AND MAKE A SUMMARY OF HIS LIFE AND WORK.

MUSLIM AND HEBREW SPANISH SCIENTIST AND PHILOSOPHERS

CIENTÍFICOS Y FILÓSOFOS HISPANO-MUSULMANES E HISPANO-JUDÍOS

Maslama de Madrid

Azarquiel

Abulcasis

Averroes

Ibn Gabirol

Maimónides

Avempace

Abbás Ibn Firnás

Ibn Arabi

Mosé ben Sem Tob de León

CALIPHS AND RULERS IN AL-ANDALUS

CALIFAS Y GOBERNANTES ANDALUSÍES

Almanzor

Abderramán III

Abderramán I

Boabdil

LEYENDAS. COMO EL RINOCERONTE LLEGÓ A TENER LA PIEL QUE TIENE

LEYENDAS. MITOS DE CREACIÓN DE DIVERSAS CULTURAS

CARNIVAL

EDAD MEDIA. REINOS CRISTIANOS. LA RECONQUISTA

AL-ANDALUS. ABD-AL-RAHMAN III

Abd ar-Rahman was born in Córdoba, the grandson of Abdullah, seventh independent Umayyad emir of Al-Andalus. His parents were Abdullah's son Muhammad and Muzna (or Muzayna), a Christian concubine.^[17] His paternal grandmother was also a Christian, the royal infanta Onneca Fortúnez, daughter of the captive king Fortún Garcés of Pamplona. Abd ar-Rahman was thus nephew in the half-blood of queen Toda of Navarre. He is described as having:

.. white skin, blue eyes and attractive face; good looking, although somewhat sturdy and stout.

Emir Abdallah died at the age of 72. Despite the fact that four of his sons (Aban, Abd al Rahman, Muhammad and Ahmad) were alive at the time of his death, all of them were passed over for succession. Abdallah instead chose as his successor his grandson, Abd al-Rahman III (the son of his first son). This came as no surprise, since Abdallah had already demonstrated his affection for his grandson in many ways, namely by allowing him to live in his own tower (something he did not allow for any of his sons), and allowing him to sit on the throne on some festive occasions. Most importantly Abdallah gave Abd al-Rahman his ring, the symbol of power, when Abdallah fell ill prior to his death. Abd al-Rahman succeeded Abdallah the day after his death, 16 October 912.

In 929 Abd ar-Rahman III considered himself powerful enough to declare himself Caliph of Córdoba (16 January 929), effectively breaking his allegiance to, and ties with, the Fatimid and Abbasid caliphs. The caliphate was thought only to belong to the prince who ruled over the sacred cities of Mecca and Medina, and his ancestors had until then been content with the title of emir. But the force of this tradition had weakened over time; and the title increased Abd-ar-Rahman's prestige with his subjects, both in Iberia and Africa. He based his claim to the caliphate on his Umayyad ancestors who had held undisputed control of the caliphate until they were overthrown by the Abbasids.

VISIGOTHS. RECCARED I

Reccared (or Recared) I (559–601) (reigned 586–601) was Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia. His reign marked a climactic shift in history, with the king's renunciation of Arianism in favour of Catholic Christianity in 587.

Reccared was the younger son of King Leovigild by his first wife Theodosia. Like his father, Reccared had his capital at Toledo. The Visigothic kings and nobles were traditionallyArian Christians, while the Hispano-Roman population were Roman Catholics. 

By this time the remaining ethnic distinction between the increasingly Romanized Visigoths and their Hispano-Roman subjects had all but disappeared (the Gothic language lost its last and probably already declining function as a church language with the extirpation of Arianism, and dress & funerary customs also cease to be distinguishing features in ca. 570/580).

VISIGOTHS. ISIDORE OF SEVILLE

Saint Isidore of Seville (Latin: Isidorus Hispalensis; c. 560 – 4 April 636) served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the 19th-century historian Montalembert put it,  "The last scholar of the ancient world".

At a time of disintegration of classical culture, and aristocratic violence and illiteracy, he was involved in the conversion of the royal Visigothic Arians to Catholicism, both assisting his brother Leander of Seville, and continuing after his brother's death. He was influential in the inner circle of Sisebut, Visigothic king of Hispania. Like Leander, he played a prominent role in the Councils of Toledo and Seville. The Visigothic legislation that resulted from these councils influenced the beginnings of representative government.

His fame after his death was based on his Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia which assembled extracts of many books from classical antiquity that would have otherwise been lost.
Isidore was the first Christian writer to try to compile a summa of universal knowledge, in his most important work, the Etymologiae.

THE CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS

ISLAM AND AL-ANDALUS

THE VISIGOTHS

HISTORIC ATLAS ONLINE

http://www.timemaps.com/history/spain-1215ad

EDAD MEDIA. LA PENÍNSULA DE LOS CINCO REINOS. PORTUGAL, CASTILLA, NAVARRA, ARAGÓN Y GRANADA.

EDAD MEDIA. LOS VIAJES DE IBN BATTUTA Y MARCO POLO

EDAD MODERNA. LOS GRANDES NAVEGANTES. COLÓN, HERMANOS PINZÓN, MAGALLANES, ELCANO, EL INFANTE HENRIQUE Y BARTOLOMÉ DÍAZ

EDAD MEDIA. EL IMPERIO BIZANTINO

EDAD MEDIA. EUROPA MEDIEVAL. LOS FRANCOS. CARLOMAGNO

EDAD MEDIA. EL ISLAM

EDAD ANTIGUA 4. ROMA IMPERIAL.

EDAD ANTIGUA 1. MESOPOTAMIA (Sumerios, Asirios y Babilónicos)

SUMER

Sumer was the first civilization where we can find written records in the form of clay tablets. The invention of writing sets the beginnig of history and the end of prehistoric times. The first written records are from 3500 B.C. (5500 years ago). This civilization was located in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Eufrates, and flourish from 4000 BC to 2400 BC.INVENTIONS: the cuneiform writing system, the plough, irrigation agriculture, the wheel chart and the commerce.  In Mathematics they used a sexagesimal numeric system from which derives our way of measuring the time in 60 seconds, 60 minutes and the year in 12 months. They developed the astronomy from which derives the week of seven days, the five planets (for thousands of years we only knew about five planets), the moon and the sun.SOCIETYIt is the first complex society we know of,  with farmers, specialized jobs (builders, bakers, metal workers, ceramists...), an army, priests and a government.MONUMENTSThey built the largest cities of that time,  surrounded by high walls. And they built colossal zigurats some time before the great pyramids of Egypt.

EDAD ANTIGUA 2. EGIPTO FARAÓNICO

EDAD ANTIGUA 3. LA GRECIA CLÁSICA

MIDDLE AGES

EDADES DE LA HISTORIA

PARA SABER MÁS. CIVILIZACIONES DE LA EDAD ANTIGUA 1. SUMERIA

PREHISTORY

NOTICIAS SOBRE ENERGÍA

http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2015-02-12/adios-a-la-factura-de-la-luz-tesla-llegara-a-los-hogares-en-seis-meses_708902/

Unidades de medida inglesas. El pie y la pulgada.

Medida. Juego de volúmenes

http://www.minijuegos.com/juego/liquid-measure-2