1. THE ORGANIZATION OF CHRISTIAN TERRITORIES
• Hey
• 1-The King had great
power . He made
political decisions and
leaded the army
• 2-The court was
travelling
• 3-War is very common
• 4-There were a lot of
castles in Castilla to
defend the territory
• 5-There wasn´t a
permanents army
(Vassalage)
• 6-Conquered lands
were re-populated
with free peasants .
They had to a lot of
freedoms

2. The expansion of the Christian Kingdoms
The Duero Valley(9th & The Tajo and Ebro valleys The conquest of
10th centuries) (11th & 12th centuries) Andalusia(13th century)
1-The Reconquest 1-In 1031 Al Andalus was 1-The muslims lost the
divided in Taifas
involved the occupation 2-The Taifas were weak
battle of Las Navas de
of territory from Duero to kingdoms and the They Tolosa in 1212.
Tajo was conquered more 2-After this battle
2-It was not a military easily by the Christian Christians people
Kingdoms
advance 3-They paid Parias to conquered Adalusia more
3-Groups of peasants avoid Christian attacks. quickly.
colonised the land and 4-Conquered territory 3-This conquest was
was divided into areas
formed small villages in a dominated by village
made by Fernando III el
process called 5-In order to santo y Alfonso X el
REPOBLATION encourage(animar) the Sabio
Repoblation , the Kings 4-This situation lasted in
gave privileges called
“fueros” and “ Cartas
1492 when the Catholics
pueblas”. They were Kings conquered the
documents which gave Kingdom of Granada
more rights to the
settlers.
6- There was a lot of
land that didn´t recieve
many people .This land
was given to military

3. The Repoblation
• 1-Muslim people could live
on land conquered by
agreement or capitulation
although some of them left
land conquered by force
and went to Africa
• 2-Christian settlers received
free a plot of land ,
domestic animals and a
house.
• On the other hand (por otra
parte) Kings gave his
relatives and members of
clergy and military orders
a large amount of land .
These enormous areas
became ( se convirtieron)
feudal states.
• All these operations were
written in special book s
called “ Libros de