UNIT 13: Medieval Spain

OBJECTIVES:

1. To associate the beginning of the Middle Ages with the fall of the Roman Empire.
2. To name the Germanic tribes which invaded Hispania: the Vandals, Alans, Suevi and Visigoths.
3. To learn that the Visigoths established a kingdom in Hispania, and Toledo was the capital.
4. To link the Visigoth kings with the unification of the territory, religion and laws throughout the peninsula.
5. To know that the Muslim invaded the peninsula in the year 711 and called it Al Andalus.
6. To understand what taifa kingdoms were.
7. To recognise the four kingdoms the Christian territory was divided into around 1230.
8. To learn that the Catholic Kings conquered Granada, the last Muslim kingdom, in 1492.