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This page has been create by: Nerea Chapinal Romero =1. What marks the differences between a civil and a religious building?= The civil buildings were built for monarchs, kings and nobles it was also used for residence a for vigilance. Religious buildings were used for weapons arsenals and militar mercies, for praying and for organise masses.The big differece between them is for were they were used for.

=2.Civil Buildings: 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= **Civil Buildings:** The Ribat,The Christian Wall,The Muslim Wall,The House and Tower of los Lujanes,The Moreira District,The Alamillo Square.

**Religious Buildings:** Church of San Nicolás of Los Servitas,The Basilica of San Miguel of los Octoes,The Parish Church of San Ginés.

=3. What function did the civil buildings have? What were they used for?=
 * Cava Alta and Cava Baja:** Both streets were used as trenches to defend the Christian Wall.
 * Judería de Lavapiés:** It was used as a neighborhood for the jews to live.
 * Barrio de la Morería:** It was used to complete the wall that were over Guadarrama and Somosierra
 * Ribat:** It was used as a strenght to avoid been invaded by the cristians.It was used as a strenght and aslo as arab monastery.
 * Muralla musulmana**: It was used to defend the kingdom, principally the Almudaina.
 * Muralla cristiana**: It was to protect the new neighborhood created after the cristian Reconquest.
 * Casa de Cisneros:** It was used as a prision for Antonio Pérez, the secretary of king Phillip the II. Here also was boen the count of Romanones.
 * Casa y torre de los Lujanes**: It was used as a residence for the king Francisco I of France.
 * Plaza del Alamillo**: It was used for built there the The Court of Justice and the town hall.

=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 parroquia,but during the Independence War, it was used as a weapon arsenal.
 * Monasterio de San Martin:** It was used as a parroquia or as a convent.
 * Iglesia de San Miguel de los Octoes**:It was used to pray an to give cult to God.
 * Parroquia de San Gines**: It was used to give cult to San Ginés de Arlés and during the Civil War as a headquarter.
 * Parroquia de Santa Cruz**: It was used as first as a social organization, but after the Reconquest it was used to help the people that goes to Atocha.
 * Parroquia de San Andrés:** It was used to honour and exalt the apostle San Ginés.
 * Parroquia de San Pedro el Viejo**: It was used to pray and give cult to God.

1. In what ways society organized in Madrid during the Middle Ages?
==**2. What did the people who built the buildings hope to show with their structures? 3.What role did religion play during the Middle Ages? Was it a private and personal matter? Or, was it related to social status?**==

Madrid in the middle eges was divided into three states: The Nobles, were a privileged state so they had not pay taxes and has politica power, Their duty was protect the population. They lived in castles. The Clergy was an other privileged state so the had not pay taxes and has political power, their duty was only to pray for the people. There are two types aThe Secular Clergy and The Regular Clergy. And the finally state was the peasants. They were a non-privileged state, so they had to pay taxes and then don´t has political power. The most of the population were peasants. They lived under harsh conditions and their duty was to work and sirve the nobles. The people built the buildings Becouse so, they can to show how they work, his materials, and the decoration of inside the building or the town. It was related with the social status, because the Pope was like the government or the king at that time. He was the most important person in all the country, and the decissions are acceptes for he. The clergy, people related with the church also was very important.