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****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 for pray and worship God and the civil buildings were built for treat political topics, protect and guard the city and for the justice.

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****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 BULDINGS: Muralla Cristiana Muralla Musulmana Casa de Cisneros Casa y Torre de los Lujanes Plaza del Alamillo Cava Alta Cava Baja Barrio de la Morería

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

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****3. What function did the civil buildings have? What were they used for?****
Muralla musulmana: Was used for defend the muslim almudaina and for defend the mosque, the Alcazar and the house of the emir or governor.

Muralla cristiana: Was used for protect the new neighborhoods created after the Reconquest.

Casa de Cisneros: It served as a prison for Antonio Pérez, a secretary of the king Felipe II; and the count of Romanones was born here. It had as residents the generals Narváez and Polavieja.

Casa y Torre de los Lujanes: It was used as residence for Diego y Fernando de Lujan and for the Conde De Castro Ponce. It was also used during the reign of Fernando VII as the instalation of the optical telegraph, ince 1858 it became the seat of the Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country, the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Naturals Sciences.

Plaza del Alamillo: Was used by the muslims in which they situated a city hall, a court of justice and a building for living.

Cava Alta y Cava Baja: Both were trenches of water used for defending the Christian Wall.

Barrio de la Morería: The wall was a building that helped the Muslims to defend themselves and protect the city of Toledo from the christians that came from the northe of the Iberian Peninsula.

****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, then, as a quarter, warehouse,and as the acting hall of the Royal Band.

Monasterio de San Martín: It was used as a parish or convent.

Iglesia de San Miguel de los Octoes: It was used for pray and worship God.

Parroquia de San Ginés: It was used for worship San Gines de Arlés and during the Civil War it was used as military quarter.

Iglesia de San Pedro el viejo: : It was used for pray and worship God.

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****5. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the civil buildings? Why?****
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Muralla Musulmana: Emir Muhammad I ordered its construction because the needed a wall for defending the muslim almudaina, the mosque, the Alcazar and the house of the emir.

Muralla Cristiana: Alfonso VI ordered its construction. I was built because they needed to protect the new neighborhoods created after the Reconquest.

Casa de Cisneros: It was constructed by Benito Jiménez of Cisneros.

Casa y torre de los Lujanes: We don't know who ordered its construction. It was built as a residence for different nobles and then, for different uses.

Plaza del Alamillo: It was constructed by the muslims but we don't know who ordered its construction. It was bult because the muslims wanted to stablish in this square a court of justice, a city gall and a duilding for living.

Barrio de la Morería: Muhammad I ordered the construction of the wall for protecting the city of Toledo.

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****6. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the religious buildings? Why?****
Iglesia de San Nicolás de los Servitas: Was build by people of the XII century for used it as a parish but, during the Independce War it was used for storing the weapons, then, as a quarter, warehouse,and as the acting hall of the Royal Band.

Monasterio de San Martín: It was constructed by Gaspar Ordoñez for used it as a parish or convent.

Iglesia de San Miguel de los Octoes: Before the fire it suffered, we don´t know who ordered its construction. In the XVIII the architect Santiago Bonavía build it for masses, confessions and sometimes for other celebrations.

Parroquia de San Ginés: We don´t know who ordered its construction. It was constructed for giving catholic masses.

Iglesia de San Pedro el viejo: It was built by Francisco Sanz.

=The big question=

I think the society in the Middle Ages was based in the money, the thing that a persona had, the power and the estate aperson belong to. There were three social estates: the nobles and the clergy which were the ones that had more power, did not pay taxes and had important political position and in the other hand there were the worker that they did not have any power, the did not have political positions and they had to pay taxes imposed by the nobles and the governors.

I think the persons who ordered the construction of the buildings apart from improving the city or defend it from invasions the wanted to show how powerful they were and the money the had. For example the muslim wall or the ribat were buldings constructed for defendingthe city but also for show the power the emir had over all the people. Other building belong to the nobles and rich families that wanted to show their fortune to the rest of the people such as the Casa y torre de los Lujanes.  Religion was very important for all the people because the believed in God and were very religious. The church had a lot of power because everybody obeid God. I don´t think it is related with social status because the nobles, the clergy and the workers were religious. The churches and the parishes were built because people needed a place for pray and for worship God. I also think it was important because people needed something to believe when they had bad times.



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