Describe the Reconquista & then indicate how it's conclusion contributed to Catholic Spain's rise to global prominence.

 

Reconquista in Spain and Portugal is a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims who had occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula in the early 8th century.

This was also a the process by which the Catholic and the Islamic Commission increased its migratory in Spain.

The Islam was a widespread religion on the Iberian Peninsula which began with the Umayyad.

How the  Reconquista conclusion contributed to catholic rise in Spain to global prominence;

-The Catholic Church in Spain has a long history starting in the 1st century. It is the largest group of people from Roman Empire rule led to the expansion of Arianism in Spain and they were held at Toledo in what would come to be part of Spain. - It had international support from Catholics.

-During the high Middle Ages the Roman Catholic Church became organized into an elaborate hierarchy with the pope as the head in western of part Europe which established supreme power. -- -Many innovations took place in the creative arts during the high Middle Ages and literacy was no longer merely requirement among the catholic.

 -The Inquisition was a powerful office set up within the Catholic with Count confiscated the lands of the accused to increase his corruption in the Spanish Catholic Church which was caused by Jews who were prominent.

- Beginning in the 12th century and continuing for hundreds of years the Inquisition is infamous for the severity of its tortures and its persecution of Jews and Muslims.

- Its worst manifestation was in Spain where the Spanish Inquisition was a dominant force for more than 200 years, resulting in some 32,000 executions.

 -Corruption among the Spanish Catholic Church was caused by Jews who survived centuries and converted to Christianity.

-Rome renewed its own Inquisition in 1542 when Pope Paul III created the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition to combat Protestant.

-In 1580 Spain conquered Portugal and began rounding up and slaughtering Jews that had fled Spain. Philip II also renewed hostilities against the Moors who revolted and found themselves killed also sold as slaves. -After the death of Philip II in 1598 his son Philip III dealt with the Muslim uprising by banishing them. about 150,000 Muslims who had converted to Catholicism were forced out of Spain.