Effects of Crusades

Aim: What are the effects of the Crusades in Spain?

Do Now (U6D9)February 10, 2014

Use your paragraphs from yesterday to describe one economic and one religious effect of the Crusades

Homework: Study for your exam tomorrow.

PQ1

How did Spanish territorial control differ before and after the Crusades?

Spain and the Reconquista

(Muslim land in Green)

Spain and the Reconquista(Only Muslim Kingdom is

Granada)

Spain and the Reconquista

Crusading spirit continued long after the Fourth Crusade in 1204

Spain controlled by Muslims since the Battle of Tours in 732 AD

However, through war and conquest, by 1300, most of Spain was conquered for Christian kingdoms

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

In 1469, the marriage of royals from the two most powerful kingdoms of Spain opened the door for a final push to conquer all of Spain from the Muslims

King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile, which when married, unified Spain together

The Reconquista is Complete

Muslims finally defeated in 1492 and driven from Spain

The Reconquista is complete

PQ2

How did the control of Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella differ from Muslim rule?

Convivencia Under Muslim Rule (700-1400),

Spain practiced the concept of convivencia, which means coexistence

Relative time of peace between Muslim, Christian, and Jew in Spain

After King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella took control in 1469, many Jews and Muslims converted to gain access to new jobs in the Spanish government

There was worry that these conversos, or converts, were not truly Catholic

PQ3

How did Spain attempt to “re-Catholicize” Spain after King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella took control in 1469?

Spanish Inquisition Meant to ensure Catholic faith after

Muslim control Affected many Jews and Muslim

“conversos” whose faith was questioned

Many new converts received better jobs

Commissioned by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1478

Inquisitors were priests, and would travel from town to town and question Spanish Catholics on their faith

Could be charged with heresy, or crimes against the church, and put on trial!

The Tribune Trial of the Inquisition

Inquisition had a five step process Accusation

Detention

Trial

Torture

Sentencing

Result of the Inquisition

Unified Spain under one religion (Catholic!)

Migration out of Spain due to unfair trails “Brain-drain” Many Muslims and Jews left

Spain and went to different parts of Europe