Reconquista

many great events that shaped his world. His era is one of the great upheavals: the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Islam moves east: the fall of Granada and the end of the last Muslim kingdom in Andalusia marks the victory of the Catholic reconquista and the end of Islamic influence in Western Europe. But the Turks have just taken Constantinople, ending the last Roman Empire, and already a new Empire, powerful, huge, destructive, carries the banner of Islam: the Ottoman Empire, ruled by sultans

conquer of the Iberian Peninsula by the Muslim Moors in 711. After the Moors had taken over much of the Iberian Peninsula, the Reconquista began. The Reconquista (Spanish for “Reconquest”) was a period of about 750 years in which multiple Christian kingdoms expanded their borders into the territory held by the Muslims on the Iberian Peninsula. The result of The Reconquista was not the removal of the Moors from Spain, but instead the combining of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim societies. The tension

The fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries were important years for the Habsburg and Ottoman empires in which empires attempted to grow and conquer lands in both the Europe and lands overseas, primarily with the discoveries of the Americas. Even though the Ottomans were strong militarily and conquered the lands a lot of Europe, the Spanish was able to control majority of the maritime, which helped with the globalization route. An important time for the Ottomans was in 1453 when the Ottomans

The Crusades hold a place in the canon of Western history as valiant wars against the infidel in the East, motivated by an unparalleled pious zeal. Whilst revisions to this history have considered more mundane and ordinary motives, such as a want for land or an attempt to reinforce the Peace of God movement, there is something to be said of the religious motivations of the crusaders. The words ‘conquest’ and ‘conversion’ seem ideologically charged – with conquest being what is done by temporal rulers

Leo Africanus has been known with many names. He was born in in a Muslim family of Granada as Al-Hassan b. Muhammad Al-Wazzan Al-Zayyati before they moved to Fez in the rising of Christian Reconquista . It is claimed that hostile Spanish policy towards Muslim population in Granada drive the family to Africa and they settled in Fez of the western Maghrib. At the age of 17, he accompanied his uncle on a diplomatic mission to Timbuktu in the name of Wattasid Sultan of Fez . In 1518, a dramatic event

The rise of Islam brought many important changes to Europe, both physically and culturally. Through the many conquests of Muhammad and his successors, Muslim dominion, by the middle of the eighth century, included all of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, as well as Spain. Spain would serve as a point of invasion for Islamic forces into Western Europe and it would continue to serve as an Islamic state up until 1492 when its last territory (Granada) fell to Christian forces. Muslim control of

Before period 3 came the fall of many great empires across the world. Han China and Gupta India were falling to invaders and revolts. However, one of the most important downfalls of an empire in the classical period was the fall of the Roman Empire. Due to many contributing factors, Rome broke apart towards the end of period 2 and changed the entirety of Europe and the Middle East. This fall more importantly increased the divide between Eastern and Western Europe. After the fall of Rome, the administrations

1. Maize and Impact: a. The cultivation of maize, introduced heavily by sophisticated civilizations such as the Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs, helped to feed large population sizes, thus facilitating the spread of its cultivation across North America. By 2000 BCE, Pueblo peoples, due to the new cultivation of maize, developed irrigation systems. By 1000 CE, maize reached to modern-day SE America, which influenced Creek, Choctaw, and Cherokee peoples by growing and feeding their populations. 2. Columbian

The Essay “The Americas to 1620” is providing information on the new world being discovered,what happened before like the reconquista,trade route,the columbian exchange,and the slave trade.Its reflecting over the larger period discussed because it's going over all the main points of period one that was a big part of our history.They were all life changing moments that would shape our history to what it is now. Our history is set up into 9 periods of time.For period 1 its really where it all started

The Age of Exploration, or sometimes known as the Age of discovery, began in the 1400s and continued throughout the 1700s. These expeditions took a great deal of man power, money, and technology. Many ships were only able to cover about one hundred miles a day, making the duration of these voyages long, taking years to complete. During this period Europeans began to explore various parts of the world via sea. Most of the men did not join these voyages willingly, they were forced into service and