HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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to try people for heresy
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to drive Muslims out of Spain
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to recapture the Holy Land
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to expel Jews from Spain
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Detailed explanation-1: -Reconquista, English Reconquest, in medieval Spain and Portugal, a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims (Moors), who had occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula in the early 8th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -The territorial recovery was motivated by political and religious ideas of restoration to varying degrees in various places at various times. During long periods many people lived at peace and there were often alliances between Christian and Muslim rulers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Between 1609 and 1614, on royal orders, almost all of the formerly Muslim population of Spain, known as the moriscos, was expelled from the country. The deportation involved several hundred thousand people and, in that sense, dwarfed the much better-known edict to expel Spanish Jews, which was drawn up in 1492.