HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Ferdinand and Isabella finally defeated the last remaining Muslim kingdom in Europe.
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Christopher Columbus discovered the New World
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The Black Death destroyed many lives
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The pope died
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Detailed explanation-1: -On January 2, 1492, Muhammad XII of Granada (King Boabdil) surrendered the Emirate of Granada, the city of Granada, and the Alhambra palace to the Castilian forces. The war was a joint project between Isabella’s Crown of Castile and Ferdinand’s Crown of Aragon.
Detailed explanation-2: -On 2 January 1492, Isabella and Ferdinand entered Granada to receive the keys of the city and the principal mosque was reconsecrated as a church. The Treaty of Granada was signed later that year; in it, Ferdinand and Isabella gave their word to allow the Muslims and Jews of Granada to live in peace.
Detailed explanation-3: -On January 2, 1492, Ferdinand II, King of Aragon, and Isabella, Queen of Castile, completed La Reconquista (the Reconquest)-the Christian victory over Muslims in Spain-by forcing the surrender of Granada, the last Muslim stronghold.
Detailed explanation-4: -The end of the Reconquista The reconquest of Spain was finally completed in 1492 when the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, conquered the last Muslim stronghold of Granada. These two rulers combined the two most powerful Christian kingdoms: Castile and Aragon.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Reconquista (Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician for “reconquest") is the historical term used to describe the military campaigns that Christian kingdoms waged from the 8th century until 1492, in order to retake the Iberian territories which were lost due to the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.