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This page has been created by Melisa López Lucena. toc = = == = = =1. What marks the differences between a civil and a religious building? =

The difference between religious and civil buildings is that the religious buildings were built to the persons who pray to the God like nuns, monks, etc. and the civil buildings were built for the persons that spoke abaut of the treat political topics, protect and guard the city and for the justice.

= = =2. Make a list of the most important civil buildings and another of the most important religious buildings in the city that you can still see today. =

-Muralla Musulmana -Muralla Cristiana -Barrio de la Morería -Plaza del Alamillo -Cava Baja -Cava Alta -Casa de Cisneros -Casa y torre de los Lujano -Ribat -Juderia of Lavapies
 * __**//CIVIL BULDINGS://**__

-Iglesia de San Nicolás de los Servitas -Iglesia de San Pedro el viejo - Parroquia de San Ginés -Monasterio de San Martín -Iglesia de San Miguel de los Octoes
 * __**//RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS://**__

= = =3. What function did the civil buildings have? What were they used for? =

//**Muralla musulmana**//: Was used for defend the muslim city, for defend the mosque to pray, the Alcazar and the house of the emir or governor that are the most important person.


 * //Muralla cristiana//:** Was used for protect the new neighborhoods created after the Reconquest, when the cristian people conquered it the new territorie where not covered so anyone can conquer it so they create it to protect the new territories.


 * //Barrio de la Morería//**: The wall that they created was a good help for the Muslims to defend and protect the city of Toledo from the persons that do the reconquest (the christians) that came from the North of the Iberian Peninsula.


 * //Plaza del Alamillo//**: Was created by the muslims were they built a city hall, a building that is used to the court of justice and a buildings for living.


 * //Cava Alta//** : Were a deep hole with water that they use for defending the Wall.
 * //Cava Baja//**: Were a deep hole with water that they use for defending the Wall.


 * //Casa de Cisneros//**: It is a prison for the people like Antonio Pérez and the count of Romanones was born here. It had as residents the generals Narváez and Polavieja that they watched them.

//**Casa y Torre de los Lujanes**//: It was used as residence for Diego y Fernando de Lujan and for the Conde De Castro Ponce. In 1858 it became the seat of the Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country, the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Naturals Sciences and the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

//**Ribat**//: It was a built-up area to avoid being invaded. They have built two. One was like a fortress and a checkpoint and the other was used as a monastery Muslims used to pray.


 * //Juderia of Lavapies//**: The neighborhoods where immigrants, well they live there the jews.

=4. What function did the religious buildings have? What were they used for? =


 * //Iglesia de San Nicolás de los Servitas//**: It was used as a parish but, during the Independence War it was used for storing the weapons.

//**Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo**// : It was used for the people to pray.

//**Parroquia de San Ginés**//: It was used for worship San Gines de Arlés and algo was used as a military quarter.


 * //Monasterio de San Martín://** It was used as a convent.

I//**glesia de San Miguel de los Octoes**//: It was used for the people to pray.

= = =5. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the civil buildings? Why? = = =


 * //Muralla Musulmana//**: The one that ordered the construction were the Emir Muhammad I because the needed a wall for defending the muslim city.


 * //Muralla Cristiana://** The one that ordered the construction were the king Alfonso VI because they needed to protect the new territories that they have after they conquered it.

//**Casa de Cisneros**//: Benito Jiménez of Cisneros construct it.


 * //Casa y torre de los Lujanes//**: It was building that they were used as a residence for nobles and then for other differents things. We don´t know who ordered and paid for the construction of it.


 * //Plaza del Alamillo//**: It was constructed by the muslims . It was built because the muslims wanted a court of justice, a city hall and a building for living and they thought in these square.


 * //Barrio de la Morería://** Muhammad I ordered the construction of the wall because they need to protect the city of Toledo from the Christians.

= = =6. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the religious buildings? Why? =

//**Iglesia de San Nicolás de los Servitas**//: Was constructed by persons of the XII century because they need it as a parish but, storing the weapons, as a quarter, a warehouse and also they need a place to the acting hall of the Royal Band and they choose it.

//**Monasterio de San Martín**//: It was constructed and paid by Gaspar Ordoñez to the use of a convent or parish.

//**Iglesia de San Miguel de los Octoes**//: In the XVIII the architect called Santiago Bonavía build it for differents situations like masses, confessions and other celebrations.


 * //Parroquia de San Ginés//**: It was used for giving catholic masses.

//**Iglesia de San Pedro el viejo:**// It was built by Francisco Sanz and were used to pray.

=-Big Question = During the Middle Ages the society in Madrid was organized into two different states: The privileged state in which the people don´t pay taxes and the Non-priliged state in which the people they pay taxes and in it they were many different groups in the privileged state were the king, the nobles and the clergy and in the non-privileged state were the workers. The people built it buildings because the most important and richest people needs it and also they have much money to paid, nobody can do that in these ages because they don`t have much money. Many of them used the building to live in it, other buildings are constructed to other things like hospitals, convents, monasteries, etc. I think that the people who order that constructions wanted to be most important or to show the others that are the persons with most money. And the workers do their work to take their necesities, they are not going to became important that the person who order it, but in my opinion the workers can be the most important because do the work and the other no because only watch it. The religion played a very important role during the Middle Age. There were many churches and monasteries to pray God because in these ages many of the population belived in God not like today. Some examples are: San Nicolas Church, San Pedro el Viejo Church, San Andres Church, etc. I think that the religion was not a private matter and many people killed other persons because they dont belived in it. I think that is not the correct situation. Well the clergy was very important in these ages and the important people that have money ruled in it and no the poor ones because they can paid it and also give some lands to cultivate their food.