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This 5 page paper discusses the Reconquista and some of the great Spanish explorers of the 15th and 16h centuries. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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that seem like they belong on a movie screen. This paper discusses the Reconquista and some of the explorers of the era. Unfortunately in a paper this short all
we can do is touch on the explorers and their accomplishments. Discussion The Reconquista (Reconquest) is the term applied to the period during which Spanish Christians retook the land that
had fallen to the Arabs when they invaded Spain in 711 A.D. (Reconquista, 2006). The "Christian Kingdoms" in the northern part of Spain "defeated and conquered the southern Muslim and
Moorish states of the Iberian Peninsula, existing since the Arab invasion of 711" (Reconquista, 2006). The dates of the Reconquista are generally accepted as 722-1492; it began with the Battle
of Covadonga, and ended with the "conquest of Granada" (Reconquista, 2006). Granada was under the control of Mohammed ibn Alhamar and was the "last Islamic stronghold" in Spain; he lost
the city to Ferdinand III of Castile (Reconquista, 2006). For the next 250 years, until January 2, 1492, Granada was a "vassal state to the Christian kingdom" (Reconquista, 2006). On
that date, Boabdil, the last Muslim leader of the city, surrendered complete control of Granada to the king and queen, Ferdinand and Isabella (Reconquista, 2006). With the fall of Granada,
most of Spain was united; the exception was Navarre, "which remained separate until 1512" (Reconquista, 2006). Spain, like most countries, originally comprised independent kingdoms, and it remained divided until Isabella
and Ferdinand ascended their thrones in 1479 (Spain, 1997). They had married in 1469, thus joining the "royal houses of the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon" (Spain,
1997). The history of these two monarchs is one of great unrest. Isabella was crowned in 1474 as queen of Castile, but had to "fight a civil war to secure
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