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**1.What marks the differences between a civil and a religious building?** The civil buildings were used for goverment meetings,were the Royal Family lived and were the people of the goverment wroked, they were ordered by the goverment, the king, the president, etc. The religious building were ordered by biship, Pope, Church, ect.They are older than the civil buildings, they were used for give mass, for marriages, baptisms, ect.

Civil buildings: Casa y Torre de los Lujanes, La Plaza Mayor, El Museo de San Isidro y el Palacio de los Consejos.
 * 2. Make a list of the most important civil buildings and another of the most important religious buildings in the city that you can still see today.**

Religious buildings: Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo, Basilica de San Andres, Basilica de San Miguel, Capilla de San Isidro, Capilla del Obispo, Colegio imperial de los Jesuitas, Monasterio e Iglesia de San Geronimo el Real and the Parroquia de San Ginés. They were where the people in the goverment work, were they meet, ect. Now they are used for meetings, some of them are museums and some of them are still used by the city council.
 * 3. What function did the civil buildings have? What were they used for?

4. What function did the religious buildings have? What were they used for?** They were used for give mass, marriages, bauptims, ect. Now a days they are used for almost the same althogh some of them they are big turisim hubs.

**5. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the civil buildings? Why?** Casa y Torre de los Lujanes:Built by the architect Juan Gomez de Mora. La Plaza Mayor: El Museo de San Isidro: It was ordered by the Lujanes familly. Palacio de los Consejos: Built by Francisco de Mora and Juan Gomez de Mora.

**6. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the religious buildings? Why? Iglesia of San Pedro el Viejo: Basilica of San Andres: Basilica of San Miguel: Ordered by Luis Jaime of Bourbon and Farnesio. Capilla of San Isidro: Capilla del Obispo: Ordered by king Alfonso VIII and built by the architect Javier Vellés. Colegio imperial de los Jesuitas: ordered by San Francisco de Borja. Monastery and Church of San Geronimo the Real: founded by Enrique IV Parroquia of San Gines: Built by Juan Ruiz. Big Question:** During the middle ages society was divided in three states, the nobles, which have the best jobs in the goverment and the army. They had political power and as they were a privileged state they didn't pay taxes.They can have their own lands, they recived them inchange of pretection for the King, with was the most important person in the country.Then the Clergy, they were also a privileged state, so they didn't pay taxes. They work in the Church. And the thrid state, which was divided in two parts, the workers, which most of them were very poor, they had to pay taxes, they can't have their own lands, they work for the nobles. And the other part was the bourgeisie, which they rich merchants, they had to pay taxes. Only the King and the first and second state were able build or order the construccion of buildings. The bulding show the state fro which it was built, for example we know that the Real Alcazar was built by kings because it was very big and it was built with expensive materials. Some churchs as for example the Basilica de San Andres and the Basilica de San Miguel, we know they were ordered by the second state bacausethay are Churhs, because their decoration and becacuse their structures. Religion was one of the mostimportant things in Spain during the Austrias period. The people who work in the Church were privileged and the ones who were of other religion, were, in some cases, persecuted.