The King of Aragon and Queen of Castile who secretly marry and dream of uniting the two lands.
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
100
Pride and loyalty to one's country, or people.
What is nationalism?
100
He was the King of Visigoths in 711 and will be killed in battle by the invading forces of Islam.
Who is King Roderic?
100
The Genoese sea captain who came to Castile with idea he could sail westward to reach the Indies.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
The waterway that separates North Africa from Spain.
What is the Gibraltar Strait?
200
The "Hammerer".
Who is Charles Martel?
200
The religious movement in the 1500's that was an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of non-Catholic Christian churches.
What is the Protestant Reformation (Reformation)?
200
Name of the battle that took place in the year 732, just south of Paris, where the Islamic force will be destroyed by the Roman Catholic Franks.
What is the Battle of Pointers (or Tours).
200
The policy to rid the Iberian Peninsula of all Jews, Muslims, and Heretics.
What was the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisition)?
300
They are the natural boundary that separates France from Spain.
What are the Pyrenees Mountains?
300
What all the Muslims were eventually known as in Iberia.
Who are the Moors?
300
The motto used by Ferdinand and Isabella to show their "equal" ruling power.
What is Tanto monta, monta tanto?
300
These were the two big issues argued over in a war of words between Henry VIII, and Catherine and the Pope?
What are the right to have a divorce, and the right to run his own lands and taxes.
300
The Grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella, becomes one of the most powerful men in European history, and technically becomes the first King of Spain.
Who is Charles V?
400
Germany was once named this, which was made up of over 40 small kingdoms, dukedoms, or principalities.
Where is the Holy Roman Empire?
400
He was a Champion of Christianity, defeating the invading Islamic forces at Toulouse in 721.
Who is Duke Odo of Aquitaine?
400
A very large naval force.
What is an armada?
400
The country that went to war with Castile in order to settle the dispute over who was to be the Castilian Queen.
What is Portugal?
400
The Queen who has the shortest reign in English history, ruling only nine days.
Who is Lady Jane Grey?
500
The waterway the Spanish Armada sailed up in an attempt to invade London, but instead went to the Netherlands.
What is the English Channel?
500
Islamic forces came to the "aid" of these people, who rebelled against the Holy Trinity.
Who are the Unitarians?
500
The time period when Christian forces started "taking back" the land from the Muslims in Iberia.
What was the Reconquista (reconquest)?
500
A place in northern Spain where the Muslim forces lost the Battle of Covadonga.
What is Asturia?
500
The forceful removal of Jews from a country, region, or area.