The Almoravid Empire (In Our Time)
1050 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Berber people who grew to dominate the western Maghreb, founded Marrakesh and took control of Al-Andalus. They were desert people, wearing veils over their faces to keep out the sand, and they wanted a simpler form of Islam. They called themselves the Murabitun, the people who gathered together to fight the holy war, and t
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Around 1050
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- East–West Schism (1054)
- First Crusade (1096)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- The Tale of Genji written (1008)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Crusades (1095)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
- Capture of Jerusalem by First Crusade (1099)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)