Watersheds of Spain: Atlantic, Cantabrian, and Mediterranean
Items 3 – 4
Atlantic Watershed
Cantabrian Watershed
1. Publication.
- Title: The Lord of the Zero
- Author: Mª Isabel Molina
- Publisher: Alfaguara
Main Theme
The main issue is discrimination against people because of their religion.
This book tells the story of Joseph, a boy who lived in the Moorish Caliphate of Córdoba and was studying at a Muslim school. His classmates called him Sidi Sifre because he had an amazing ability for mathematical calculation. Due to this gift, he aroused the envy of one of his Muslim classmates, who accused him of having insulted the Islamic religion so that he could not continue to study and be the best.
As a result of this lie, José is forced to flee to the Christian lands of the north and hide in the monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll. There, he teaches numbers and translates Arabic books. He meets a girl, Emma, and they fall in love. She tells him that they are in danger. After many problems, Joseph goes for Emma, they get married in secret, and the two go to the monastery of Leyre, where they hope to have no more conflict and be happy.
Alvar Ben Joseph: He is an 18-year-old Moorish boy. Physically, he is brown with dark curly hair, has black eyes, and is tall, slim, handsome, intelligent, courteous, and polite. What stands out most is his great capacity for mathematical calculation.
Emma: She’s a Christian. Physically, she has curly, copper-colored hair, green eyes, and some freckles. She has had a bad childhood. She is kind and outgoing.
Abbot Arnulf: He is a very good man who helps a lot. Physically, he is of medium height, form, and with broad and strong hands.
Mediterranean Watershed
(These characteristics are for everyone except the Ebro River)
- Short and low flow
- Irregular
- With floods
Saul Oprueud Laiz
I liked this book. The story is good at first, in the first chapter, but in the second and third chapters, there are so many names and so much data that I could not remember almost any of them. I had to read it many times because they appeared later, and I did not know what they were talking about. I would have liked it more if they had told the story without so much political and historical detail, but overall, I liked it.
2. José lives in Cordoba during the reign of the Caliph. Research the running time of action, as was the ruler of Cordoba.
Rahman I. He built, three kilometers from the city center, at the foot of the mountain, the residence of Arruzafa and urged the establishment of the mosque in the year 786. He was always a foreigner, not integrated into the population, who liked to live aloof.
His successors led to the development of culture and settled in Cordoba mystical Eastern masters, mathematicians, physicians, philosophers, and poets. The mosque would be finished and enlarged by the sovereign Rahman II.
Gradually, Arab civilization was consolidating. Numerous baths, mosques, factories, tapestry, and other hydraulic works were constructed. The ultimate greatness of Muslim Cordoba was achieved by Abderrahmane III. He took the title of Caliph in 929 and made an independent Caliphate of Cordoba Damascus and the most flourishing, educated, and settled in Europe. He further extended the mosque and endowed it with a courtyard with porticoes. The city reached one million inhabitants. That glory began to decline during the reign of his successors. The Caliphate began to fall apart, out of existence in the year 1013, due to civil wars.
