FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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Expelled North African and Arab Muslims-known as Moors-from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe
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Invaded the Egyptian Valley of Kings and torched the Great Library at Alexandria
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Laid siege to the imperial city of Tenochtitlán with the help of La Malinche and the warriors of the Tlaxcala
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was the Reconquista? The Reconquista was a centuries-long series of battles by Christian states to expel the Muslims (Moors), who from the 8th century ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula. Visigoths had ruled Spain for two centuries before they were overrun by the Umayyad empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -On January 2, 1492, King Boabdil surrendered Granada to the Spanish forces, and in 1502 the Spanish crown ordered all Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity. The next century saw a number of persecutions, and in 1609 the last Moors still adhering to Islam were expelled from Spain.
Detailed explanation-3: -The expulsion of the Moors took place between 1609 and 1614. Within a five-year span, the new Spanish state expelled between 300, 000 and 700, 000 Moors. The majority of those remaining settled in Morocco, and to a lesser extent in Algeria, Tunisia, and Turkey.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Reconquista is a period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula, spanning approximately 770 years, between the initial Umayyad conquest of Hispania in the 710s and the fall of the Emirate of Granada, the last Islamic state on the peninsula, to expanding Christian kingdoms in 1492.