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Turning point · The Crusades, 1095–1291
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1085 — Alfonso VI takes the old Visigothic capital, the Reconquista’s model conquest. It becomes a rare meeting-place of Arabic, Hebrew and Latin learning — the crusade’s unintended gift of knowledge.
This is one scene of Chapter 9 — The Idea Turned Loose in The Crusades, 1095–1291.
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