Requerimiento

Question 1

Patricia Seed argues that Spanish imperial forms (from 1492-1640) took a unique form because of its unique Islamicate experience. Specifically, she argues that Spain’s ceremonies of _________ were based on Islamic forms of conquest.

Answer 1

Possession (as in the Requerimiento)

Question 2

The argument that Spanish modes of imperial possession in the 15th and 16th centuries were informed by Islamic forms of conquest is expounded by what historian?

Answer 2

Patricia Seed

Question 3

Camilo Gomez-Rivas resists parts of Patricia Seed’s argument about Spanish imperial possession being influenced by Islamic traditions of conquest. She agrees that Spain’s traditions (like the Requerimiento) come from Iberia’s past, but in more complicated ways than Seed allows. Instead, Gomez-Rivas traces the rise of these traditions of conquest to

Answer 3

the period of Al-Andalusian decline in the long 12th century, including increased contact between ethnic groups and the emerging Christian kingdoms’ extortion of astronomical protection fees from Iberian Muslim kingdoms.

Question 4

Al-Andalus, also known as Muslim Spain, Muslim Iberia, or Islamic Iberia, was a

Answer 4

medieval Muslim territory and cultural domain occupying at its peak most of what are today Spain and Portugal.