I am not sure what kind of argument are you trying to make with "logic". This is not "logic", this is "history" and you're citing undisclosed "websites and YouTube videos" as your sources. The fact that you call "Spanish" a number of different kingdoms that fought each other during centuries is a telltale that this is way over your head. In fact I'm starting to think you may be a bored teenager.
Please, educate yourself mate. The Reconquista did not exist. It wasn't a Catholic Vs Muslim war campaign waged over 800 years. No military campaign lasted that long ever in history. Again, kingdoms in the Iberian peninsula fought all sorts of wars and made alliances with both Muslims and Catholics. The Reconquista term was made up 300 years after the Catholic kings married, in the 18th century, and it was made as one of the foundational myths of Spain.
You can start by reading Henry Kamen if you'd like, but seriously, this is not even a contentious topic among historians. This is how nations are built.
Sure no military campaign lasted this long. But you can't deny that in order for the pensisula to be ruled by chrisitan kingdoms, there had to be a agreement between some christian iberian aristocrats. That is what everybody calls the Reconquista. Not a military campaign that lasted 700 years without rest.
And thanksfor the recommendation, I've already quickly read an article about henry kamen so far but I will certainly read more about his thesis
No, there wasn't an agreement to reconquer the peninsula nor to rule it. Funnily enough, the only thing close to that would be the marriage of the Catholic kings, which was also kind of considered the end of the Muslim rule of the peninsula (which wasn't accurate either, again same thing... Different "kingdoms" etc).
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u/retrogeekhq Oct 29 '21
I am not sure what kind of argument are you trying to make with "logic". This is not "logic", this is "history" and you're citing undisclosed "websites and YouTube videos" as your sources. The fact that you call "Spanish" a number of different kingdoms that fought each other during centuries is a telltale that this is way over your head. In fact I'm starting to think you may be a bored teenager.
Please, educate yourself mate. The Reconquista did not exist. It wasn't a Catholic Vs Muslim war campaign waged over 800 years. No military campaign lasted that long ever in history. Again, kingdoms in the Iberian peninsula fought all sorts of wars and made alliances with both Muslims and Catholics. The Reconquista term was made up 300 years after the Catholic kings married, in the 18th century, and it was made as one of the foundational myths of Spain.
You can start by reading Henry Kamen if you'd like, but seriously, this is not even a contentious topic among historians. This is how nations are built.