WORLD HISTORY

COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM

COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This barbaric group took over much of Spain in 500 AD.
A
Visigoths
B
Moors
C
Reconquista
D
El Cid
E
Valencia
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Middle Ages started in Spain with the creation of the Visigoth Kingdom in the 5th Century. It would last until 711, with the conquest of Spain by the Umayyad Caliphate.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Visigoths would further impact Rome when their king Alaric I (r. 395-410 CE) sacked the city in 410 CE. After Alaric I, the Visigoths migrated to Spain where they established themselves and assimilated with the Romans and indigenous people living there.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Visigothic Kingdom, officially the Kingdom of the Goths (Latin: Regnum Gothorum), was a kingdom that occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Goths were a people who flourished in Europe throughout ancient times and into the Middle Ages. Sometimes called “barbarians, ” they are famous for sacking the city of Rome in A.D. 410. After the Western Roman Empire diminished, two Gothic kingdoms rose: the short-lived Visigoths and the longer-lasting Ostrogoths.

There is 1 question to complete.