Reconquista’s purpose: to free Spain from Muslims rule. Reconquista’s outcome: Isabela and Castile, the ones who financed most of the war, were favored and had Granada under their total influence. Reconquista’s effects: Many Jews died or fled. Only Christians were allowed to stay.
Q. What was the significance of the Reconquista?
The significance of la Reconquista in Spain was that it was a period marked by Christian re-conquest of Christian territory that had been seized by the Muslim kingdoms. The idea was to expel the Moors (Muslims) from the Iberian Peninsula ending Muslim rule in the region.
Q. How did the Reconquista affect Spanish exploration?
The reconquest of Spain from the Muslims helped the Spanish by allowing them to have the resources needed to send Columbus out on his expedition. Before 1492, the Spanish had been fighting to expel the Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. This had taken a great deal of resources.
Q. What was the result of having the Moors ousted out of Spain?
Of those permanently expelled, the majority eventually settled in the Barbary Coast (Maghreb), with around 30,000 to 75,000 people ultimately returning to Spain. Those who avoided expulsion or who managed to return to Spain merged into the dominant culture.
Q. What happened to the Moors in 1492?
This culminated in 1492, when Catholic monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I won the Granada War and completed Spain’s conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Eventually, the Moors were expelled from Spain. The Alhambra, a Moorish palace and fortress in Granada, Spain, was described by poets as a “pearl set in emeralds.”
Q. How long did the Moors rule Europe?
700-year
Q. Where do the Moors come from?
Of mixed Arab, Spanish, and Amazigh (Berber) origins, the Moors created the Islamic Andalusian civilization and subsequently settled as refugees in the Maghreb (in the region of North Africa) between the 11th and 17th centuries.
