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To: LouAvul
The period of "relative peace" where there were Moslems, Christians and Jews in Spain is also called "The Reconquista"!

For the most part you could count on warfare somewhere in Spain for about 7 centuries.

Finally, the Franco-Hispanic knights got the upper hand and everybody was given a choice of becoming Christian or going away. Most of the Jews chose to convert, as did most of the Moslems.

Spain went on to other sorts of problems.

22 posted on 02/09/2006 2:32:55 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: muawiyah; motorola7

The time of "las tres culturas" that they talk about was under Alfonso X, a learned Christian king, in a reconquered part of Spain.

In Islamic parts of Spain, things were very uneven. Some of the Muslims softened up after contact with Christian and Jewish cultures, but they themselves were then conquered by more "orthodox" Muslim tribes from North Africa and other parts of the ME. But in general, things were bad for Jews (even Maimonedes converted to Islam briefly) and worse for Christians.


32 posted on 02/09/2006 2:52:52 PM PST by livius
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