During the Crusades, was Spain Christian land or Muslim land?
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Both. The southern section was largely muslim with European-influenced Catholic populations in the northern regions during the early crusades, though the efforts of the Europeans would result in the spread of Catholicism throughout Spain.
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The Crusades were a series of holy wars waged by Christians (usually against Muslims) in the medieval period. The word "crusdade" has enterd the lexicon as a general word for any kind of holy war, or sometimes for any campaign someone wages with serious zeal. Check out Wikipedia for a good jumping-off point on the Crusades:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
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Call for Crusades by Pope Urban I I 1095-1588\nCapture of Jerusalem in 1st Crusade 1096-1099\nEnd of 2nd Crusade in defeat 1149\nSigning of peace treaty to end Third Crusade 1192\nIdep. of Portugal as Christian kingdom 1179\nDestruction of Baghdad and end of Abbasid dynasty 1258\nCapture of Constantinople by Ottomans 1453\n\nI am pretty sure i am right
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You must put the Crusades in perspective- we hadn't gone through an enlightenment yet. So Christians were no worse or better than anyone else at that time.\n\nToday, the Muslims are the ones who are way behind the rest of the world in terms of civilization.
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the crusades are when the muslims and Christians were fighting for Jerusalem. They were known as the "Holy Wars", and there were eight crusades over all. The first four were the most famous. here's your source:
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No, sadly enough they have contributed nothing.  That is why they are so frustrated.  5 or 6 hundred years ago, they did beautiful artwork.  There is a castle in Spain called the Alhambra that was built by the muslims.  Other than that, no.  Their religion does not allow them to do anything positive.
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Africa. Mediterranean Sea routes were dominated by the Italians and Muslims had cutoff the eastern land routes.
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Spain, France, and Britain?
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Not only the names, architecture also reveals the Arabic past of Southern Spain! The Southern part of Spain used to be Arabic provinces and cities! Spain and Northern Africa are just the Mediterranean Sea apart!\nThere is even a legend about the tears shed by the last Arabic prince of Spain, Boabdil creating a river under a famous castle.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Spanish_Inquisition\nYet another disgusting chapter in the history of the Catholic Church!\n\nThe Primary Cause of the Spanish Inquistion\nhttp://www.art.man.ac.uk/SPANISH/courses/sp2230/Netanyahu.html
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it does go back thousand of years ago Islams believe in Ala and Jews believe in Jesus. and they Ben fighting for Israel sense Israel was discovered.
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Many of the Saracen(Arab) conquered lands did not use Arabic as their working language. Iran(Persia) never adopted Arabic, Egypt only adopted Arabic a few hundred years ago, and Morrocco still has speakers of the native Berber language.\n\nThe truth is that the Arabs rarely controlled the entire Iberian peninsula. The extreme part of the peninsula, called Greneda was reliably in Arab hands, but Galicia in NW spain, the Basque country, Catalina near France, and parts of Castille changed hands often.\n\nAnother analogy which might do well might be to look at England which was under French Norman rule for centuries. The people spoke English not French.\n\nIn much the same that English absorbed many French words, so Spanish absorbed many words from Arabic.
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You cannot stop the course of History. Sooner or later, Islam will rule the world. It is only a question of time. Panic, on account of this, is really unwarranted. Tolerance in Muslim Spain is a fact not a "mith", as you peculiarly put it
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To the Muslim Jihadists the crusades never ended, the Christians (west) just retreated.  The Jihadists believe they came back when the UK and France split up the Ottoman Empire during WWI and they think of the state of Israel as a nation of the west.  To the Jihadists the crusades never ended.
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The Third Crusade (1189–1192) was an attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Saladin. It is sometimes referred to as the Kings' Crusade.
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The best place to get the truth about the crusades is in a book called "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades).  Check your local library.  \n\nOf course, if you are doing a paper for a very liberal teacher, he/she may not want the truth and give you a poor grade in revenge.  So be careful.  Also, go to the following site, for more:  \n\nhttp://www.cbn.com/spirituallife/churchandministry/churchhistory/crusades_gotquestions.asp
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RELIGIONS: Mostly Christians with 83% of the population Roman Catholic while there are also Protestant minorities. Other religious minorities include Jews and Muslims.