Reconquista of Spain

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The prosperous Golden Age brought to Spain by Islamic Empires including improvements in culture and economy were destroyed in the Reconquista by the Catholic Castilian race.
I. The Beginning of the occupation of the Moors in Spain, was a peaceful time, and the Spanish-Muslim Empire would join the large Moslem Empire which spanned from Arabia to Northern Africa.
A. In 711, the Moslems of Northern Africa sent in troops to conquer Spain.
1. “The Governor of North Africa, Musa ibn Nusair, sent a general named Taliq bin Ziyad, with 7,000 men to conquer Spain.”
2. “They wanted to enlarge the Moslem influence, and so they decided to invade Spain, and ended up defeating the Visigoth Ruler, Roderick, with ease.”
3. “After they defeated Roderick, they defeated the rest of Spain with ease, and with virtually no opposition, because the Visigoth army was not very powerful in Spain at that time. They also took over Portugal at the same time as they took control of Spain.”
a) A very large reason that they had so much success with the conquering of Spain, was because they had a larger, and more powerful army.
b) Another reason was because they offered much better surrender terms to the people of Spain than the previous Visigoth Rulers had over them before they had been conquered.
c) In this day, they only way people knew how to spread religion was by violence, and though the Moors were rather gentle with the overthrowing of the Visigoth army and the conquering of Spain, this violence eventually led to Spain becoming one of the most prosperous countries of 2nd millennium Europe.
B. Even after they had conquered Spain, they had a hard time ruling.
1. After they had conquered Spain, the Moslems had a hard time establishing a Muslim ruling state.
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