1478: Spain created religious tribunals that sought out heresy (approved by the Pope)●Imprisoned/tortured/executed/exiled Muslims, Jews, and perceived heretics●The violent conversion and eradication of of perceived heresy in the inquisition is also felt in the conversion of the new world indigenous peoples●The Reconquista was a centuries long off and on again war fought by Spanish states and Portugal ●Fought against the Moors (Muslims from North Africa)●Sought to push the Moors off of the Iberian Peninsula●The last Muslim stronghold (Granada) fell in 1492 to Spain●The Reconquista is important because...●The simultaneous dates (1492) of the fall of Granada and Columbus's landing in the New World ignited a religious fervor for colonization and the Catholic conversion of the new world

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