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1. What marks the differences between a civil and a religious building?
The differences are: a civil building was constructed to the resolution of problem in the goverment of a country or country instead religious buildings was constructed for pray.

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.
Civil buildings: 1.The Christian wall. 2.The Musulman wall. 3.Casa de Cisneros. 4.Casa y torre de los Lujanes 5.Plaza del Alamillo 6.Cava alta 7.Cava baja 8.Juderia de lavapies

Religious buildings:

1.St. Nicolas 2.Parish of St. Gines 3. Church of St. Pedro el viejo

Answer the following questions for each of the buildings that you mention on your list.

3. What function did the civil buildings have? What were they used for?
The Christian wall: the function was to protect the people of the villages.It was used to protect of the attacks of the enemigs and nowadays to monumental zone.

The Musulman wall: protected almudaina or ciudadela musulman and also the mosque, the alcazar and tha house of the emirate, is was stronger than the christian wall.It used was

Cisnero house: was used as an hotel or prission.

Lujanes house and tower: the function was to acommodate people of great posts like a king.Was used as residence of the king, Francisco I (France).

Square of Alamillo: the muslims was the ones to constructed to make justice.Was used of tribunal of justice by the muslims, like a city councy.

Cava alta: was parallel to Cava baja, was used by the christians to protect the christian wall.

Cava baja: was parallel to Cava alta, was used by the christians to protect the christian wall.

lavapies jewry: there was a ritual before you entered in the temple, was used by the christians.

4. What function did the religious buildings have? What were they used for?
St. Nicolas:was constructed as parish but finally is change into rehearsal room so is used to try out the real band of musician of the king.

Parish of St. Gines: was used to do catholics masses.

church of St. Pedro el viejo: is used to pray.

5. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the civil buildings? Why?
The christian wall:was ordered to constructed by Alfonso VII de Castilla, because for protection and to live there.

The muslim wall: was order to constructed by the emirate cordobes, because was constructed to protect almudaina or ciudadela musulmana.

Cisnero house: was order to constructed by Benito Jimenez Cisneros, because they used for a hotel to the importants persons.

Lujanes house an tower: was order to constructed by Alvaro de Lujan, because this was used to residence to people of importancies.

Square of alamillo: was order to constructed by the muslims when they arrived the Iberian Peninsula, because there the muslims do justicy.

Cava alta: we don´t know who order to constructed.

Cava baja: we don´t know who order to constructed.

lavapies jewry:

6. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the religious buildings? Why?
St. Nicolas: we don´t know the name of the person but we can say that was some arab monarch or a governor, because it was used as parish.

Parish of St. Gines: was order to constructed Jose Maria Aguilar, because the church supported three burnings.

Church of St. Pedro el viejo:

// .**.The Big Question.**. //
After researching Madrid's most important Middle Ages' buildings, you will have discovered that their architecture not only gives us information about art, but also clues that allow us to understand the society of the period.The buildings did not only have a concrete function (prayer, government, household, market, etc.) but they were also used by the people who built or paid for them as ways of showing the rest of the society their importance and social status.Considering the buildings that you have studied, write a small composition (10 lines) in which you explain: 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?

Society during the middle age was divided into There was some social groups: the king, clergy, nobles and the the workers but during the middle ages something has change.The clergy was the most powerful, they were privilaged estates they held important positions, they had political and ecnomic power.The nobles was a privilaged estate they held the important postitions and they had economic power.The workers they were non-privilaged estates, no important anda they couldn´t held political positions but some people became very rich so formed the bourgeoisie, they could had the title of noble if they marriy wiaht a nobleman or noblewoman or lend money to he king.I think they hope that here structures it can be the most powerful and beautiful than the others.They had to pray in the chruch or in the parish and the had to massed.The state was the clergy because was religions persons.

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