THE BATTLE OF ALARCOS 1195 - THE FIGHT BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM INTENSIFIES - WOTW EP 8P2

A new power in Morocco, the Almohads, seize North Africa and then take Southern Hispania. Their armies are massive and they launch campaigns against the Muslims of Al Andalus and the Christian Kingdoms in the north. A major confrontation between Islam and Christianity is inevitable. At the battle of Alarcos, the Christian King of Castile, Alfonso VIII, is taught a new lesson in humility.

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SOURCES
Muslim Spain and Portgugal - Hugh Kennedy
A Vanished World - Chris Lowney
Homage to Al-Andalus - Micheal Barry
The Ornament of the World - Maria Rosa Menochal
The Wise King - Simon Doubleday
Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain - Joesph O'Callaghan

MUSIC

Kevein Macleod (YouTube Archive)

- Darkening Developments
- Meditation Impromptu
- Cambodean Odessy


ANNO DOMINI
- Archetype
Joss Edwards

- Sand and Sunburn

Filmstro

- Soldier
- Leutenant

Omri Lahav

- Peak of Atlas
- Ammon-Ra
- Calm before the storm
- Sands of Time
- Land between the seas


Aakash Gandhi (YouTube Archive)

- Spirit of the Dead

Ugonna Onyekwe (YouTube Archive)

- Progressive Moments
- Turning Slowly  

Premium Beats
- Unlimited Imagination
- Mind Field

Purple Planet
- Last Stand

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Education
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