Instructions: Read Golden Age of the Moors pages 27-71. Write a one-two pages paper answering the following questions.
1. What evidence is given of the African presence in Europe? Explain the art, people, and events that give credence to the author’s arguments.
2. What events led to the Moors gaining hold of the Iberian peninsula in 711?
3. What were some of the accomplishments during the Umayyad Dynasty?
4. Who was St. Maurice and what is his significance to European Christians?
5. How does the information in the book challenge your understanding of Africans and
Islam, as well as Western or European images and education about Africans and Islam prior to 1492, and Europe’s conquest of the world?