The music is Morisco music, found on Iberian Garden, Vol. 1 by
Altramar. The piece is Muwashshah: Mā li-l-muwallah, 1113-1198.
This music takes place at the beautiful gardens along the Guadalquiver, near Cordoba.
This is during the "convivencia" under Alfonso X (El Sabio - The Wise), the time
before Granda fell: when Christians, Moslems and Jews lived at peace with each
other. Muwashshah are songs in poetic form, with instrumental interludes in the
form of Ibn Bājja (Avempace): 1470-1520. This is Morisco art.
The Ottomans viewed the world differently than how we
currently view the world. Europeans also had a different
conception of the world. To be explicit, the Mediterranean
was viewed as composed of TWO parts: the Northern
Mediterranean and the Southern Mediterranean. The Southern
Mediterranean was the Mediterranean we now think of, while
the Northern Mediterranean is composed of the North Sea
along with the Baltic. Thus the Ottomans thought influencing
(invading and occupying) Iceland, Scandinavia, England, Iberia,
France, Lundy, Ireland, etc. all the way to Finland, Estonia,
and even Russia as quite naturally a part of their extended
empire. Thus the Ottomans expected competition from the
Hanseatic League in Lubeck, as well as the Russian Empire.
click to see.
See Lopez, Robert S.; "The Commercial Revolution of the Middle
Ages, 950-1350", pp. 20, 95, 106-119, 121
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