Reconquista

The Spanish were motivated to conquer and explore external lands in the West by riches. After the muslim religion had quickly spread not just in Asia and Africa, but in Europe too, the crusades began. The crusades set to reconquer holy Christian lands, including in Asia, which exposed the Europeans to expensive spices and other valuable goods. Furthermore, when Columbus landed in the Americas, although he thought he was in India, he states in his journal that his main priority was to find gold and/or

The Era of New Monarchs How did some events cause France,Spain, and England to initiate new monarchies? New monarchies are were rulers who consolidated their power and reduced power of nobles and clergys, they also tried to create an efficient bureaucracy. France, Spain, and England were able to become new monarchies because of a few events and a new set of rulers. To begin with France slowly became a new monarchy shortly after The Hundred Years’ War(1337-1453). They were fully able to remove the

them into an empire. An example of this is Spain, which not only found new lands to bring profit back home but also spread Christianity. “The Catholic Kings,” King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were rulers during the Reconquista of Spain (Burbank and Cooper, 121). Their Reconquista of Spain was a brutal war, and it ended in 1492 after the fall of the Muslim Granada. The primary drive of the war was to unite the Iberian Peninsula under a Catholic rule and to remove non-Christian people like Jews and

Empire, Christianity diffused to the British Isles and Northern Europe. As Christianity experienced a decline in followers, it pushed back against the Muslims, who took over parts of both Spain and the Middle East. These ideological wars were named Reconquista and the Crusades respectively. Christianity experienced a small period of losing followers, only before a rapid boom in Christians across the world. As Christian missionaries spread to the Americas, Eastern Europe, and Africa, Christianity became

was conquered by Germanic tribes and later by the Moors Spain emerged as a unified country in the 15th century, following the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs and the completion of the centuries-long reconquest, or Reconquista, of the peninsula from the Moors in 1492.The Reconquista, the struggle among the Christian kingdoms and the Moors lasted until 1492. By 1512, the unification of present-day Spain was complete. During the 16th century, Spain became the most powerful nation in Europe, due

This would be the finale of the reconquista, the end Islamic rule. Power would  be returned to Christian royals, Ferdinand and Isabella. This constant push for widespread Christianity best shows how strongly devoted Europeans were to religion. The reconquista been going on for centuries its main objective being the expulsion of Muslims and Jews. Unlike 1555 which represents an enormous religious

Matthew Restall’s influential monograph, “Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest,” successfully illustrated several inconsistencies pertaining to interpretations of Conquest history from the nineteenth century to the present. For example, since the 1840’s, the single most influential and widely cited works concerning the conquests of Mexico and Peru were the narrative histories of William H. Prescott. His epics, “The Conquest of Mexico” and “The History of Conquest of Peru,” originally published

The tumultuous times of today seem grim and completely irredeemable, however, similar situations may have occurred in the past that ended with a somewhat happily ever after. In times of the past, various vampires, whether through disease, famine, or other plights, popped out of the woodwork, wreaking havoc on society until they were driven back into the shadows. The Victorian Era even went as far as to personify its troubles with this trope of the vampire through Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula. Similarly

which had ruled the land prior to Muslim conquest. Almost immediately after the Muslim conquest, the Reconquista began, in which Christian people fought to retrieve the land of which the Muslims had conquered. The overall goal of the Reconquista was to retrieve territory on the Iberian Peninsula and convert or isolate people of different faiths such as the Jews and Muslims. (Source 5) The Reconquista continued from the beginning of the Muslim kingdom in the region, finally ending after the conquest

The Journey Columbus’s Finding Developed Through the Uncovering of San Salvador in 1492 Christopher Columbus’s adventitious finding of San Salvador led to the initial European “discovery” of the New World. Columbus, an Italian explorer, attempted to sail west from Spain to India, funded by King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile (Christopher Columbus’s Exploration). He sailed west using three boats: the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria (Christopher Columbus the Italian Explorer)