I have learned from the past unit that Maimonides and his family fled from Spain at a pivotal time: the Almohad invasion. The Almohads, coming from Morocco, captured Spain in order to reinstate power and purity there. They did this as a response to earlier Christian efforts to try to regain territory. This particular attempt at Christian reconquest was the retaking of Toledo in 1085- sixty-seven years prior to the Almohad invasion.
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