Igor+Karabinovskyy+-+Webquest

__**Igor Karabinovskyy- Webquest**__
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1. What marks the differences between a civil and a religious building?
We can differentiate very easely between civil and religious buildings. Religious buildings are churches, parishes, chapels and basilicas.The architecture between religious and civil buildings also are diferent. There occur religious acts like prays, weddings and give mass. Monks and priests lives in religious buildings, its another important difference. Civil buildings were for official acts where the king or president live and recieve other important people for meetings or important acts.

__//**-Importanta civil buildings:**//__

 * Palacio de los consejos.
 * Museo de San Isidro.
 * Plaza Mayor.
 * Casa y Torre de los Lujanes.
 * Alcazar Real.

__//**-Important religious buildings:**//__

 * Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo.
 * Basilica de San Andres.
 * Basilica de San Miguel.
 * Capilla del Obispo.
 * Parroquia de San Gines.
 * Monasterio e Iglesia de San Jeronimo.

3. What function did the civil buildings have? What were they used for?
The civil buildings have the function of recieve important people, kings and presidents live there. They were use for meetings, congresses and important acts. So civil buildings were very important in government that shows their importance and social status.

4. What function did the religious buildings have? What were they used for?
The religious buildings where the places where the monksand priests lived. They were the house off all the religious people. They were use to pray, weddings, gove mass and other religious acts.

5. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the civil buildings? Why?
The construction of the civil buildings were ordered by the kings that were in the throne in those years. The Royal Alcazar for example was constructed by several kings before the final construction. The house of the lujanes was ordered by Alvaro Lujan. The civil buildings were constructed for reside of nobles and kings. They were also used for official acts.

6. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the religious buildings? Why?
The religious buildings were ordered by monk, piests and bishops. The religious buildings were paid by the governor or king. They were built to be closer to God, for praying and religious acts like weddings and baptisms.

__**The Big Question**__
In the Middle Age the society in madrid was organized in three states, the feudal system. Feudalism has two privileged states and one non privileged. Nobles and Clergy were privileged states, they held the higuer positions in the society and politics.Nobles in most cases live in palaces (civil buildings) and the clergy in monasteries (religious buildings) They doesn´t pay taxes and they take their own decisions. The peasants (workers) were an non privileged state and they pay taxes like the tithe to the church. They work in harsh conditions and they take orders of the nobles. The burgueoisie was a social gropu inside the peasant state (workers) they were rich and banking families.

The Lujan's family, a noble family live very luxury on their house and tower of Lujan's. Their were a noble family so they didn't have to pay taxes and recieve taxes from peasants. The Lujan's family built his house and tower to show their wealthy and power. It was a very rich family that owned their own land. The Real Alcazar was a Palace, in this case the kings that passed throught the throne built it. With the palace finilly constructed the king used it to show his power, it is the biggest palace of Madrid and only kings, that have a lot of power can live there. The Palacio de los Consejos was another civil building that was built for official and political acts wiht other kingdoms.This buildings give a good image of the social status of the goverment.Churches and parishes were built to show their belief in God and to attract people to their religion. Many churches were damage and destroyed in wars so some of them like the church of San Pedro el Viejo were rebuilt. With religious buildings the people who built it want more taxes. Tithe was paid by the peasants to the clergy, so tithe was more controlled.

In the 16th and 17th centuries religion plays a very big role in the society. Catholicism predomintes in all the places, it recieves the tithe from the peasants and wealth grows. The pope was a very important figure in those centuries, the pope occupied a important position in politics and was the head of the catholic church. A great part of this power and wealth come from the tithes paid by the peasants. Church was very good seen, and it's social status was very high.