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The History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad

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Overview

Syllabus

  • 01: From Stones to Bronze: Prehistoric Spain
  • 02: Celtic, Phoenician, and Greek Colonists
  • 03: Rome Conquers the Iberian Peninsula
  • 04: Christianity Comes to Hispania
  • 05: Barbarian Tribes Divide the Peninsula
  • 06: The Visigoths Unite Spain
  • 07: Islam: The New Religion
  • 08: Conflict within Islam
  • 09: The Moors and the Glory of al-Andalus
  • 10: The Christian Reconquista
  • 11: Medieval Spanish Culture
  • 12: The Sephardim: Iberian Judaism
  • 13: Gypsy Influences on Spain
  • 14: The Growth of Catholic Religious Passion
  • 15: Columbus and the New World
  • 16: Conquistadors and Missionaries
  • 17: The Spanish Main: Trade Convoys and Piracy
  • 18: The Golden Age of the Spanish Habsburgs
  • 19: Religious Wars on Muslims and Protestants
  • 20: The 18th-Century Bourbon Kings of Spain
  • 21: Spain Loses Its Empire
  • 22: 20th-Century Spanish Modernism
  • 23: The Spanish Civil War and Franco's Reign
  • 24: Modern Spain: Still on a Crossroad
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Taught by

Joyce E. Salisbury, Ph.D.

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