What was the Reconquista?

A. an effort by Spain to conquer Portugal and restore Catholicism

B. a plan by the Church to convert all of the native people of the Americas

C. a 750-year old effort by Christian Kingdoms to expand across the Iberian Peninsula and expel the Moorish Muslim states

D. a plan by England to conquer and enslave all of the native people of Ireland

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Bernard

7 May, 21:25

What was the Reconquista?

A. an effort by Spain to conquer Portugal and restore Catholicism

B. a plan by the Church to convert all of the native people of the Americas

C. a 750-year old effort by Christian Kingdoms to expand across the Iberian Peninsula and expel the Moorish Muslim states

D. a plan by England to conquer and enslave all of the native people of Ireland

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The Reconquista (a Spanish and Portuguese word for "Reconquest") was a period of 750 years in which several Christian kingdoms slowly expanded themselves over the Iberian Peninsula at the expense of the Muslim Moorish states of Al-Andalus (Arabic الأندلس, al-andalus). The Muslims invaded Iberia in 722. The last Muslim stronghold