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Rome was a growing empire and they were taking over most of Europe, some Asia, and the top of Africa. The conquered the Iberian Peninsula and named it Hispania. They also had control of Portugal naming it Lusitania. -
The Visigoths were an East Germanic tribe that was pushed onto the Iberian Peninsula by the Huns. They took over a bunch of Spain and started to push Rome out. Since Rome was so big they could not get messages from one side to the other in a short time period. -
The Moors crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in the year 711 with an army of Arabs and Berbers. They were lead by Tariq and originally only 7000 men. -
When Al-Andalus was fighting with itself the Christians came in and took over. The Christians were still mad at how they were pushed out of the Iberian Peninsula. -
When the Christians broke into a few kingdoms and one was named Aragon. When Sancho 3 gave the Kingdom of Aragon to his third son Ramiro 1 -
They got married to finish of the Moors and push them out of the chunk of land. They did not have enough people of power to finish their first job of getting ride of the Moors -
The people of Spain finely pushed the Moors out of the Iberian Peninsula. They were ready to just start gaining power. -
Queen Isabella funded the expedition to the new world. She gave a certain amount of money for there expedition.