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1. Spain: The Reconquista (ss28) Back to: World in Threes map
2. Muslims Spread in the 700s Recall, Muslims overran Spain and made it all the way up to Tours, in France
Battle of Tours, 732 CE
Franks (under Charles The Hammer Martel) win
3. Spain: The Reconquista (ss28) For most of Middle Ages, Spain is controlled by Muslims
Muslims were accepting of other religions
Christian Kingdoms existed in Spain and fought amongst each other
4. Spain: The Reconquista (ss28) Crusades:
As part of the Crusades, Popes would regularly urge Christians to reclaim Spain
It never worked
5. Feudalism in Spain Feudalism not a big deal in Spain
(Islam forbade it)
More feudalism in the north, less in south
No huge need for defense against invaders
Senor system: a farmer could abandon his lord to protect himself (no real serfs).
Trade and Scholarship never really dead under Islam
Catholic ideas that enforced feudalism not in place.
6. Spain: The Reconquista (ss28) Starting in the 1200s, internal conflict within the Muslim Caliphate of Cordoba fractured that part of Spain.
In 1469 the rulers of Castile and Aragon marry: Isabella and Ferdinand, uniting Christian Spain.
7. Picture the Reconquista as one of those wide brooms that gradually sweeps the Muslims down to the point at the bottom (Gibralter)
8. Spain Conquers and Unites United under a banner of Christianity
Last Muslims expelled in 1492.
Re-emergence of the inquisition
Not just against heretics, but against all non-christian
Isabella: One King, One Law, One Faith!
Expulsion of Jews
9. Spanish Nationalism The idea of Spain was: One King, One Law, One Faith!
Spain united around:
Strong central leaders
A united law (the catholic laws)
Christianity While the rest of Europe is questioning Catholicism, Spain embraces it completely.