The Rise and Fall of Al-Andalus | What Was the Reconquista?

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What was the Reconquista? For over seven centuries an assortment of Muslim powers ruled parts of Iberia, which they called al-Andalus, but during all of that time, things were never static on the peninsula.
Under the Umayyad Dynasty, al-Andalus was conquered from the Christian Visigoths, under the Emirate of Cordoba, it experienced a golden age, and under the Nasrid Granadans, it survived for 200 years despite the triumph of Christianity elsewhere. Though, by 1492 the last Muslim state on the peninsula, the Emirate of Granada, had been destroyed; replaced by Spain's modern Christian order.
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@LookBackHistory 3 жыл бұрын

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@peterstamatiou4530 3 жыл бұрын

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@MortalRepublic 3 жыл бұрын

2:01 *deep sigh*

@LookBackHistory 3 жыл бұрын

Haha... yeah...

@maryking2712 3 жыл бұрын

Another informative video. Well done.

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@vikiclips 2 жыл бұрын

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@orangemayflower 3 жыл бұрын

wow really well done and very objective plus some humor great video

@LookBackHistory 3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

@willplays7246 Жыл бұрын

This is great!

@joser.romero5783 Жыл бұрын

This is an awesome video. Great job, thank you so much

@LookBackHistory Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@bopject 3 жыл бұрын

interesting! (Suggestion: The Spanish Armada maybe? )

@LookBackHistory 3 жыл бұрын

Good one!

@hamzaabbass1300 3 жыл бұрын

Well done

@lehistoryconnoisseur1441 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting, i always wondered what happened to Al Andalus, why it's united in 867 but disunited in 1066. Also why did Castille leave Grenada for 200 years? Why did they not outright conqueror them?

@LookBackHistory 3 жыл бұрын

That's an interesting question, I suppose I did brush over that a bit in the video. My understanding is that the tribute Castile received from the Nasrids was enough to disincentivize them from a full-blown conquest. War is risky, threatening it and getting paid, is not so much.

@lehistoryconnoisseur1441 3 жыл бұрын

@@LookBackHistory So i suppose by 1492, Grenada didn't have enough to pay?

@LookBackHistory 3 жыл бұрын

@@lehistoryconnoisseur1441 And, because of the Iberian Union, Castile-Aragon was considerably more powerful than Grenada by then.

@blugaledoh2669 3 жыл бұрын

Several reasons. The Castilians did tried to conquer Grenada in 1350 but their king died of the black plague and political disputes occupied them for 140 years.

@baha3alshamari152 Жыл бұрын

By 1248 Granada recieved so many Muslim refugees and built strong fortifications on the mountains so it was impossible to conquer until gunpowder weapons development and reunification of Spain

@davidtrindle6473 2 жыл бұрын

Good quality.

@invalidnoun4746 3 жыл бұрын

Nice videos bro, I am sure your channel will grow very fast. Greetings from Turkey

@LookBackHistory 3 жыл бұрын

Hi there. I hope so!

@realmless4193 Жыл бұрын

Note* Portugal's conquest of Lisbon was part of the second crusade.

@realmless4193 Жыл бұрын

@@ricxhenz9748 as if that is a contradiction.

@DrOSami 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting and informative video. I am now in Granada and learning from your videos

@nostradamusofgames5508 Жыл бұрын

Ah the Reconquesta- a glorious achievment for civilization by banishing the barbarians from Europe, for a time being that is....

@-Blast Жыл бұрын

Lmao the most visited monuments in Spain literally dates back to the time of Al-andalus.

@itubecollection1623 10 ай бұрын

What would you know about civilization with that low IQ 😂

@angelcamachodelsolar 8 ай бұрын

@@-Blast Most visited monument in Spain is La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, whith more than 4.5 million people, a catholic cathedral. Other ones are la Alhambra de Granada (al-Andalus), el Teatro Romano de Mérida (roman), la Catedral de Burgos (gothic), la Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba (al-Andalus), la Muralla de Ávila (IXth century), la Catedral de Santiago de Compostela (romanesque), el Acueducto de Segovia (roman), la Plaza Mayor de Salamanca (baroque), el Palacio Real de Madrid (XVIIIth century), el Real Alcázar de Sevilla (al-Andalus), la Torre de Hércules de La Coruña (roman), las Casas Colgadas de Cuenca (XVIth century), la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias de Valencia (current), el Parc Güell de Barcelona (XXth century), el Museo Guggenheim de Bilbao (XXth century), and the list go on and on. Spain has 49 Unesco's places, only after China and Italy, of which only 4 from the al-Andalus period.

@mohammadmehdi1960 3 жыл бұрын

damn you deserve million of views

@LookBackHistory 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks!

@giltedged7529 2 жыл бұрын

And to stay in your own country.

@jaumejoseoranies7948 Жыл бұрын

Note the use of 4 red bars on yellow field for the flag of Aragon is wrong before 1137, year that Barcelona's count (Ramon Berenguer IV) took the job of king of Aragon.

@angelcamachodelsolar 8 ай бұрын

Omg, it's right. Ramon Berenguer never was king of Aragón, the king was his father-in-law Ramiro II and after him his son Alfonso II, he only becames prince of Aragón by the marriage whith princess Petronila. The flag comes from the vassalage of the Kingdom of Aragón whith the king Sancho Ramírez in 1068 to the pope Alexander II, taking the popes flag colors to his own flag (red & yellow).

@TerrierMartello 3 жыл бұрын

Cool

@rashrasos6553 3 жыл бұрын

agreed

@LookBackHistory 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@x0lopossum Жыл бұрын

I disagree with you calling the Caliphate the Islamic Empire. It has a distinct name for a reason. Also there were multiple Caliphates in this era of Muslim strength, the first three being the Rashidun Caliphate (Muhammad's Caliphate), second being the Umuyyad Caliphate who conquered a ton of stuff outside of Arabia, and the third and last one being the Abbasid Caliphate (who rebelled against the Umuyyad Caliphate).

@sheikh.omairraza 11 ай бұрын

I think that the Rashidun and umayyud caliphates should be classified as one, as the four caliphs of Rashidun were elected by a common vote mainly by ansars and sahabas(except the forced election of Ali radiullahu anhu) Muawiya was the same state system introduced from Abu Bkur (radiullahu anhu) to Uthman(radiullahu anhu) with only slight changes, it was just when muawiyas son was to succeed him without a vote sahabas that pushed the house of abbas to revolt,

@atticusp6592 Жыл бұрын

Man, everyone sleeps on the very much so still alive, rich, advanced and holding access to classics, Byzantine Empire. Likewise under Charlemagne there was the Carolingian Renaissance which is what our usage of Latin text is based off of. Likewise you can see between the years 1000-1200 massive advances in literally every aspect of society in Europe from art, armour, buildings farming techniques. Likewise you'd rather be a medieval peasant than an Arabic Nomad or Asian Rice farmer, having access to public baths and drinking walking, restaurants, social mobility, etc

@griefwizard Жыл бұрын

Talk about arrogant LOL

@atticusp6592 Жыл бұрын

@@griefwizard Talk about being a bitch lmao

@suserman7775 Жыл бұрын

Please elaborate what you meant by "absurdly successful wars of expansion". 1:07

@juanitamarievalencia8007 Жыл бұрын

I was wondering what he meant by that too?

@Lucas24997 Жыл бұрын

That their conquest were so sucessfull that it makes them look silly

@moin7427 Жыл бұрын

They were so successful against the weak Byzantines and Persians that it looked just looked absurd, like the mana falling down into your hands from sky.

@Shaq6322 Жыл бұрын

They started to venture outside Arabian peninsula around 632 AD. By 718, their empire stretched from the banks of Indus River to Ebro.

@John-pk9rw 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know if you realize but most muslims in Spain were not Arab

@figarooobarberofseville8623 2 жыл бұрын

Mooors

@kaliningradtoczechrepublic8162 Жыл бұрын

but thdy migrated in from arabia right?

@dunkelheit5055 Жыл бұрын

@@kaliningradtoczechrepublic8162 Some of them were. After Spain was conquered by the arabs, they converted a substantial part of the population, especially in the south. Gradually in multiple ways, sometimes voluntary, sometimes through coercion and sometimes by force. If they were culturaly Arab is a more difficult question, but the majority of Muslims by the end of the Muslim presence in Iberia were "not the decendents" of the Invaders. (In qoutes because they were, but they had no Impact on their ethnic Group or had any larger groups that could say they decended mainly from them. There are 700 between the Start and the end of the period, a period even a bit longer than between now and the end of Muslim rule. No minority can preserve itself for that long without becoming horribly inbred.)

@the3zoooz1 Жыл бұрын

The leaders were

@John-pk9rw Жыл бұрын

@@the3zoooz1 Yusuf ibn Tashfin, Yaqub al Mansur, Ali ibn Yusuf, Zawi ibn Ziri, Munuza, Abdallah al Aftas etc. None of these men were Arab. Try again.

@SF3shadow3.0 Жыл бұрын

Tarek Ibn Ziad was 13 years old when he entered Spain

@Niko0902 3 жыл бұрын

2:00 lmao

@LookBackHistory 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, clearly one of those countries didn't belong... Sorry France, you survived the revolution and shouldn't have been grouped with two failed states!

@Mohammed-se7ob 3 жыл бұрын

hmmm

@YliyahMessageTime 2 жыл бұрын

So, where is Charles Martel and Battle of Tours?

@doraemoniscute5547 2 жыл бұрын

you deserve 1milion suscribers

@basedkaiser5352 2 жыл бұрын

ARRIBA ESPAÑA ! 💪 🇪🇸

@LeafNJ 2 жыл бұрын

IRMÃO ! 👋🇵🇹

@user-rv6cx3rz7t 10 ай бұрын

Слава Україні 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

@ismaelmad1 7 ай бұрын

@@oldgettingolder Creo que está muerto ese dictador criminal que accedió al poder con una guerra entre hermanos, que dejó cerca de 1 millón de muertos de recuerdo, miseria y atraso!

@TitoEdwards Жыл бұрын

The ancient Greek works were never 'lost' in Europe. They were stored in monastic libraries where they would be copied and distributed throughout the rest of Europe amongst other monastic libraries. When Christendom rose from the collapse of the Roman Empire, cities grew and scholasticism grew again, where the monastic libraries contributed to the resurgence of Europe.

@moehayouni7673 2 жыл бұрын

you did an excellent narration of history of Al Andalouse, glad some body with a neutral view about history of this Iberian peninsulat, For a long time I was disappointed with those Spaniards and French historians, when I heard them commentating about Muslim Andalucia I sense a lot of hatred and vengeance in thier voices, because of their ignorance of history, they tried to score a point rather than educate. Thank you for saying the true history as I learned when I was in school without prejudice about no one

@LookBackHistory 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I really appreciate comments like this! I try my best to keep these videos free from the influence of my own biases whenever possible, I'm glad you thought that I did well in this case.

@JoemamaGaming-md6je 2 жыл бұрын

Well at first Cordoba was tolerate to other religion but after Al Hakam 2 died , Al andalouse became more intolerate to the non muslim subject.

@giltedged7529 2 жыл бұрын

It was no fun to be treated like a second class citizen in your country. The Reconquista was a great undertaking. Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212 really was the end of Muslim rule

@moehayouni7673 2 жыл бұрын

@@giltedged7529 you are talking rubbish, ignorants of facts of a civilization once lived in this Iberian peninsulat. I can tell of a narrow minded person that you are. from a prospect of human issue , it was the beggining of a total dark age rule in Spain and Portugal, subjecting the population to ethnic cleansing and inquisition courts will not make any human proud, unless you are an idiot who pride himself of glory of wars of religions and massacres commited by the name of a fake religion based on make-believe there are three gods of this universe. the value of a trinity gods is the reason why milllions died in the inquisition courts, lucky for those who run away to south shore of the mediterranean. Now just think if Muslims of Al Andalus won that war of 1212, it will be peace and no one leave the ancestral land.

@giltedged7529 2 жыл бұрын

@@moehayouni7673" Spain and Portugal are two happy countries where even people from other countries want to live including many Muslims who want to leave their lands made wretched, backward and revengeful by the restrictions of their books and laws, proving that the Internet talk of an Islamic golden age was a myth and certainly never reached the Islamic heartlands of North Africa

@suevialania Жыл бұрын

Muslim Ibéria... Zpain, Andorra/ Catalonia, Basque Country, Galiza, Gibraltar and Portugal!

@MuddieRain Жыл бұрын

The Cross ✝️

@AboodMJE 2 жыл бұрын

A bit biased.

@vikiclips 2 жыл бұрын

🙂

@shwetaseth1352 3 жыл бұрын

Please Russian civil war and English Civil War

@abcdefhdhebshsh Жыл бұрын

The Indus Valley was called ‘sindh’ not India, this region is now Pakistan. This land was seen as a seprate region to neighbouring ‘Hind’ aka India by the arabs.

@howardbealethemadprophetof3361 Жыл бұрын

SANTIAGO MATAMOROS CAMPEÔN DE ESPAÑA

@jakerupp3840 Жыл бұрын

European dark age only lasted until charlamagne

@figarooobarberofseville8623 2 жыл бұрын

*DEUS* *VULT* !!!!

@emperorkaido8539 Жыл бұрын

we believe islam came with the first man adam islam means submition to the one god muslim is that who submits his will to the creator

@wfcoaker1398 Жыл бұрын

That's only valid within the Islamic tradition, though. No one else thinks that. Nothing against Islam, but it's no more Absolute Truth than any other religion.

@emperorkaido8539 Жыл бұрын

@@wfcoaker1398 it is bro try to read the quran you will see scientific historical miracles which cant be know at that time plus other relegions we bileive are currupted and their scholars beileive so to but we say the quran is the same and there are many scriptures from the time o muhammad there is even one found in britain there are many other things so yeah bro give it a try maybe you life will become better you will never know

@wfcoaker1398 Жыл бұрын

@@emperorkaido8539 Yeah, it's not the first time I've been confronted by Islamic revisionism. Sorry, but the myths of your religion no more line up with historical fact than the Book of Genesis does. And it's essy to say that "the Quran is eternal" when you burn all the different versions that challenge your myths. Either that or throw them in the Nile. Don't pretend that didn't happen. Islam is like every other religion, it interprets history so as to justify its existence. I see no reason to take the claims of Islam as any more trustworthy than any others. It's brutal, murderous Semitic legalism made to look "holy". At least the other Abrahamic religions have turned away from their historical blood lust. Not so with Islam.

@emperorkaido8539 Жыл бұрын

@@wfcoaker1398you can beileive whatever you want bro islam is the first growing relegion on the earth by converts you should read more about the third caliph uthman and what he did

@wfcoaker1398 Жыл бұрын

@@emperorkaido8539 And whoever gets the most believers wins? Not believing in anything is growing faster than belief, anyway, largely because people aren't willing to be forced to follow arbitrary, cruel regulations imposed by control freaks who use their religion to justify their lust for control. It's not your mindless obedience to heartless, cruel laws that makes you a good person, it's your love for your fellow human beings that does that. And it's hard to see love for your neighbour in Islam, or fundamentalist Christianity, for that matter. Both religions are about control by any means necessary, regardless of how much misery that slavish obedience causes.

@vikiclips 2 жыл бұрын

😏

@Deutschland8894 Жыл бұрын

Really good that they were expelled 😍😍😍

@VagWhisper Жыл бұрын

"I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."

@Skeety08 Жыл бұрын

Viva España 🇪🇸

@awildtannerwasfound5045 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting to think, what if the muslims succeeded in going further than the Iberian peninsula? What would Europe look like today?

@LookBackHistory 3 жыл бұрын

Radically different, I'd imagine. They actually did make their way into southern France but were turned back at the Battle of Tours in 732.

@goheine 3 жыл бұрын

If it weren’t for Charles Martel, and the Reconquista. Europe would be like Turkey 🇹🇷 or Albania 🇦🇱.

@abdolrahmanhamed2821 2 жыл бұрын

@@goheine or Bosnia

@giltedged7529 2 жыл бұрын

Like Algeria, Libya,Morocco...that sort of thing

@vikiclips 2 жыл бұрын

@@giltedged7529 or may be, Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria.. Who knows

@lourencooliva7429 2 жыл бұрын

It’s funny seeing Anglo-Saxons drawing Peninsular history,

@averagewhiteguy2 9 ай бұрын

DEUS VULT

@kilerrbp6854 Жыл бұрын

usa 😂

@kilerrbp6854 Жыл бұрын

@commentor ok if islamic spain wouldn’t be defeated the us probably wouldn’t have existed

@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Жыл бұрын

Now we need a second Reconquista to take Catalunya back from Madrid

@theroadents1141 Жыл бұрын

I just found out I have Moroccan DNA and I’m coming back to take what was stolen from me! Lol

@50adr59 Жыл бұрын

Let's go brother We either win or we die. LoL

@jatinsharma5024 Жыл бұрын

Completely nonsense video Explaining reconquista , rather than explaining the wars and the strategies , you were teaching about Islamic history Did you see the title video of yours. Technically you just explained 3 minutes of reconquista in the whole video.