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| | Beauxbatons - French Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Along with the travels of merchants, the Crusades (10th to 13th century) brought to Europe new knowledge and new scientific discoveries - but also new superstitions, and new magic. |
 | | Crusaders, pilgrims, seafarers, Christian knights who had direct contact with the East, but also Arabs and Jews brought with them exotic spices, refined surgery tools, new weapons, unknown metal alloys and chemical substances, and new, esoteric beliefs such as Zoroastrism (based on astronomy, astrology and cosmogony). |
 | | The Arabs had conquered all of Sicily and southern Italy, part of the Dalmatian coast, and nearly all of Spain. |
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