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Spain joins the Roman Empire. Spain became part of the Roman Empire through a gradual conquest that began during the Second Punic War around 218 BC. -
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After the Visigoths claimed the Roman empire, they took many Roman traditions, laws, and more and made them their own. They converted to Christianity. They started to speak Latin. And they used some of the Roman laws.The Visigoths, a Germanic people, adopted many aspects of Roman culture, including their legal system (the Visigothic Code), Christianity (converting from Arianism to Nicene Christianity), art and architecture styles, and even clothing and royal regalia.
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During the mid-3rd century, Germanic tribes (the Visigoths being one of them) invaded the Roman Empire. The Visigoths were strong, so they conquered the other Germanic tribes and settled in the Iberian Peninsula. The Visigoths invaded the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries, culminating in the sack of Rome in 410 AD. The Visigoths were led by their king, Alaric I. -
After the Visigoths conquered the Roman empire, they turned it into the Iberian Peninsula. In this empire, they built their capital named Toledo. -
Muslims from northern Africa took only 7 years to conquer most of the
Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.
Muslims called this territory Al-Andalus and made Córdoba the capital city. The Moors invaded Spain in 711 AD when a group of North African Arabs and Berbers crossed the Strait of Gibraltar. The Moors ruled Spain for nearly 800 years. -
The Reconquista began in 718 with the Christian victory at the Battle of Covadonga and was a series of wars that lasted until 1492. The Reconquista was a series of military and cultural campaigns to retake Spain from the Muslim Moors. -
Sancho III of Navarre left to his third son, Ramiro I, the small Pyrenean county of Aragon and established it as an independent kingdom. -
They married on October 19, 1469, in the city of Valladolid; Isabella was 18 years old and Ferdinand a year younger. Most scholars generally accept that the unification of Spain can essentially be traced back to the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella.