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Renaissance #182 – The House of Wisdom (Reconquista #3)
The Islamic Golden Age is usually attributed to two father & son caliphs from the Abbäsid dynasty in the 8th century – the Caliph Harun al-Rashid and his…
Renaissance #181 – Islamic Golden Age (Reconquista #2)
The Islamic Golden Age lasted between the 8th to the mid-13th centuries. As the Muslims pushed further to the east, they crashed into the Chinese Tang dynasty. The…
Renaissance #180 – The Umayyad Conquest (Reconquista #1)
in 1492, the Christians completed "The Reconquista" – the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula (eg Spain), taking it back from the Muslims. This process lead to the transfer…
Renaissance #179 (Leonardo 67) – The Cold Soup
King Francis offers Leonardo a dream project: Design a town and palace complex. It involved lots of water. Leonardo's last years in France were like a grand finale…