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A small Muslim army led by Tarik (A Berber commander) crossed the strait of gibraltar and they defeated the visigoths. -
The Muslims Conquered the Visigoth kingdom.
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When they defeated the Visigoths they started to control the most of the peninsula except narrow mountains in the north. -
The Umayyad Caliph established the emirate of Al-Andalus with its capital Córdoba and ruled by an emir.
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He was the last member of the Umayyad clan, he proclaimed himself an Independent emir and he changed his name to Abd al Rahman I and he founded the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba. -
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He named himself caliph and proclaimed independence from Baghdad's religious authority -
was an economic, cultural and scientific age. Córdoba became Europe´s most populated city.
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He forced Christian kingdoms to pay taxes -
Muslim aristocracy divided Al-Andalus into 25 taifas (Independent kingdoms) each taifa with a major city. -
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To prevent the Christian conquest, Two north african muslims peoples , the almoravids (1086) and the Almohads (1147). With the defeat the christians conquered virtually all taifa kingdom. -
Was founded by Nasrid dynasty. -
The Nasrid kingdom was prosperous thanks to agriculture and trade. The Nasrid kings had to pay Castile heavy taxes.
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The catholic kings decided to conquer all the kingdom. Boabdil surrendered Granada ending almost 800 years of Islamic rule in the iberian peninsula.