Do Now
• Share your timeline answers (page 34)
• Record at least three effects of the
Reconquista with your table (use the book
and you prior knowledge).
• Make corrections or add anything you’re
missing.
Reconquistia1,000-1492 AD
700s-1,000s
• Muslims control most
of Iberian Peninsula.
• Great time of
scholarship.
• Some Christian
kingdoms try to retake
Spain.
1,100s
• Muslim unity
begins to weaken
• Christians begin to
question church
teachings
1269
1085
1492
1140
Reconquista
Castile won
1479
• Ferdinand
Portugal
was declared
Ferdinand
and
victory against becomes an a success.
Isabella
independent Most of the and Isabella
the Moors
become king
conquer
nation
Iberian
and inspired
and queen of
Granada
Peninsula,
other
their
• Jews must
except
Christian
countries and
convert or
Granada,
unify all of
leave.
kingdoms to
was under
Spain.
• Inquisition
fight.
Christian
control.
• Columbus
Results of the Reconquista
Voyage of
Columbus
sponsored to
celebrate
victory over
the Muslims in
Granada.
Begins Converting
other cultures
leading to the
colonization of the
Americas.
It created “Fueros”,
gave Christian
peasants permission
to live in land
deserted by Muslims
so Christianity would
spread
Reinforced
the Crusades
Pope Urban II even
told knight s in the
Iberian peninsula to
stay there and expel
the Muslims.
Effects of
the
Reconquista
Catholicism becomes
main religion of Iberia.
Jews and Muslims are
expelled and the Spanish
Inquisition kills over
2,000 heretics.
10.5 Assessment #s 1b, 2a, 2b, 2c & 3
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1b. Why did the church send priests and friars to find heretics?
The Church thought heresy was a danger to the church and to Christians.
2a. Who did Spanish Christians try to drive out of their lands?
Spanish Christians tried to drive Muslim Moors (and Jews) out of their lands.
2b. What was the purpose of the Spanish Inquisition?
The purpose of the Spanish Inquisition was to find and punish non-Christians
and heretics in Spain.
2c. How might Spanish history have been different if the Spanish had not
defeated the Moors?
Spain might have remained a Muslim country. There would have been no
Spanish Inquisition or more religious tolerance would have existed in Spain or
Europe all together. Columbus may not have “discovered” the “New World.”
3. How did kings and other rulers punish Jews in the Middle Ages?
Rulers punished Jews by forcing them out of many countries including Spain.
Christians reactions to others
• Heretics – tortured, fined, imprisoned, killed.
• Moors – launched Reconquista, forced
Muslims out of Spain
• Jews – forced out of many countries,
persecuted
Topic:
Reconquista
Unit: Medieval
Europe
Essential Question:
How did the Reconquista
reshape religion on the Iberian
Peninsula?
Spain Background
• The crossroads of Christianity, Islam, and
Judaism.
• Spain under Muslim control since 711
• Moorish Kingdom
– Multicultural kingdom with religious tolerance:
Jews, Christians (majority), & Muslims
– Highly advanced Medieval civilization
Spain Background
• In the early 700’s
AD
• Muslim invaders
called Moors- from
North Africa
• Built highly
advanced cities
such as Cordoba
Now that the Crusades are
over, what do we do? I don’t
wanna go back to my farm…
Let’s go fight the Muslims in Spain!
We’ll get some more loot and get an
indulgence for our sins!!!
Sweet…
Reconquista
• Efforts by Christian
Kingdoms to
reconquer Spain
from the Muslim
Moors
• began in 700s &
ended in 1492.
• Increased religious
devotion after
Crusades
• Christian knights
went to Spain to
fight Muslims
• Led by Kingdoms of
Aragon & Castile
Reconquista: 790-1300
Reconquista
• By the 1250s the Moors maintained only the
southern tip of the peninsula- the kingdom of
Granada
The Alhambra- palace of the Moorish kingdom of Granada
Portugal & Spain
• Portugal split off in
1139 & formed
kingdom
• Ferdinand of Aragon &
Isabella of Castile
married in 1469 and
founded Spain
• Spanish Queen Isabella
and King Ferdinand
Very devout Catholic
rulers
Ferdinand & Isabella
• Between 1482 and 1492, Isabella and Ferdinand
waged the Granada War to conquer all of Spain
and unite it as one Christian kingdom
• In 1492, they succeeded in defeating the last
Moorish King, Boabdil
• At first the Catholic Monarchs allowed the Moors
to worship and govern themselves
• Eventually they began requiring the Moors to
convert to Christianity
Spanish inquisition
• Ferdinand & Isabella wanted only Christians in
their kingdom… All other religions were
forbidden.
• Goal was to remove heretics, all non-believers
or anyone who opposed Church teachings.
• Frequently used torture to get confessions
• Led by Torquemada-Grand Inquisitor
Inquisition methods
• Under Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, the
Inquisition sought to find these heretics
• To get these heretics to confess, inquisitors
would employ threats and torture
• Thousands were tortured, imprisoned for life
and/or burned at the stake in auto de fe (Act
of Faith)
Inquisition Torture
Auto de fe (Act of Faith)
Jews expelled
• Torquemada decided
that the reason
there were so many
heretics was that
Spanish Jews were a
bad influence, so
hundreds of
thousands of Jews
were forced from
Spain
Spain a unified Catholic
country
• The Inquisition and expelling of the Jews and
Moors was so successful, that by the 1500’s,
Spain was almost completely Catholic
• In the process, Isabella and Ferdinand became
the most powerful kings in Europe
Spanish Inquisition parody
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZegQYg
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