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  1.  What was the Hispanic March?
  2.  Who was the Count of Urgell at the end of the ninth century?
  3.  What did he do that has been remembered in history?
  4.  What date is considered the birth of Catalunya?
  5.  True or false: The Catalan Counties maintained a good relationship with the Caliphs of Córdoba
  6.  What is the difference between a county and a kingdom?
  7.  In the 15th century what were the five kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula?
  8.  What was the Crown of Castile?
  9.  What was the Crown of Aragon?
  10.  When were the Catalan Counties established?
  11.  In which century did Portugal become independent?
  12.  Which was the last kingdom to be incorporated into Spain?
  13.  Explain how the Kingdom of Aragon became the Crown of Aragon
  14.  What happened in 1137?
  15.  Name the four military orders that were founded in Spain at this time
  16.  What was the purpose of the military orders?
  17.  How did the Christian kings persuade people to populate the No Man’s Land between them and the Moors in the south?
  18.  What happened in 1212?
  19.  Explain the differences between the Castillian and Aragonese economies
  20.  Explain the differences between the Castillian and Aragonese forms of government
  21.  In Aragon what was the Llibre del Consolat de Mar?
  22.  Why is this book important in history?
  23.  What did the Crown of Aragon call the Mediterranean?
  24.  What territories did the Crown of Aragon control in the Mediterranean?
  25.  How did the Catalan counties and Aragon unify?
  26.  What does the term Mudéjar mean?
  27.  What does the term Mozárabe mean?
  28.  What was the name for a Moor that converted to Christianity?
  29.  What is the name of the dialect and artistic style used in medieval manuscripts such as the famous Beatus de Liébana by Christians who had been arabised (but not islamicised) in territories occupied by the Moors?
  30.  What is the name of the famous illustrated manuscript found in the cathedral of Girona?
  31.  What was the name given to the Muslims that were allowed to stay in Christian lands?
  32.  What was the name given to the Jews that converted to Christianity in Spain at this time?
  33.  Name one famous architectural monument of the Crown of Aragon
  34.  What is the Beatus of Liébana?
  35.  What is a Beatus manuscript?
  36.  True or false: Muslims could keep their lands in Catalunya as long as they paid a special tax
  37.  True or false: The Jews had to live in ghettos in cities in Catalunya
  38.  Why could the Jews ot live in the countryside?
  39.  WHat important economic function did the Jews provide?
  40.  Why did the Jews have to do this and not the Christians?
  41.  What was usury?
  42.  Explain the similarities and differences between the economies of the kingdom of Castile and the kingdom of Aragon
  43.  What type of sheep introduced in the 13th century produce high quality wool?
  44.  Who were the Remençes?
  45.  Why was the 15th century a problematic century in Catalan history?
  46.  What was La Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe?
  47.  What was the name given to the area of Catalunya where feudalism was practised?
  48.  In which years did the peasants revolt in Catalunya?
  49.  Were the peasants successful?