The following paragraph is about the Visigoth Kingdom of Spain and the Arab conquest. 
The Arabs had controlled most of everything and by 700 they had controlled everything. But 
they still were not done, so they went out searching for new lands, and they found the 
Visigoths. At this time the Visigoths had just got a new king, Roderick. He was having 
troubles establishing control over Spain. By 711 the Arabs arrived near Gibraltar with 
approximately 7000 troops. They then defeated Roderick and killed him in battle. This was 
the end of the Visigoth Kingdom. The Arabs were very sincere with Spain, they did not force 
them to change their religion. Soon after that they conquered the whole Iberian Peninsula. 
They made Cardoba the capital and governed in the name of their Caliph.
 In 756, things changed for the Arabs. Abd-al-Rahman of the Umayyad Caliphate in 
Damascus crossed North America and landed in Spain. He defeated the local Arab governor 
and declared himself as the leader of the Spanish Territory. Then his descendants and he 
ruled for the next three centuries.

When the Arabs had just come to Spain, they were impressed by its rich agriculture resources. They compared it to paradise. When the Romans were in Spain they built aqueducts to deliver water for irrigation. The Arabs repaired it and expanded it to dryer parts of Spain. They also used water wheels to scoop water from streams and irrigation canals and used them on fields, because of these changes many new plants where discovered to the Arabs. Some of the new crops where pomegranates, sugar cane, bananas, coconuts, corn and rice.

When the Arabs had come, Spain controlled the Christians and made them into a long narrow strip along the northern coast. When these areas were beginning to expand southward the Christians called the expansion The Reconquista, because they were bringing Muslim areas under the Christian rule once again. This expansion would eventually become a religious war.

Castile is one of the most powerful kingdoms in northern Spain. The Castilian kings wanted to control other principalities directly, or at least obtain tribute funds from them. After the city of Toledo failed to pay the tribute money, Alfonso VI of the Castile kingdom decided to conquer Toledo.

The Almoravids were conservative Muslims of West Africa. They had begun to expand their territories in the middle of the eleventh century. By the summer of 1086 the Almoravid army arrived in Spain and defeated the army of Alfonso VI of the Castile Kingdom. By 1090 and 1108 the Almoravids conquered all of southern Spain and Portugal. But they were not able to capture the city of Toledo.

The Almoravids made changes later on, they persecuted all the Jews, Christians, and Intellectuals. Works of Arts and literature where thrown away and burned if the Almoravids thought it was decadent. Just because of this many Christians and Jews fled to Christian north.

By 1172 the Almoravids were replaced by a second wave of people from north Africa. These people became to be known as the Almohads. In July 1212 the Alfonso VIII attacked the Almohad army in Las Navas de Tolosa. This was the end of Moorish ( Arabs ) supremacy in spain.

From all that capturing of territories by the Christians in the thirteenth century, Muslims and Jews began to feel discrimination. Both of these groups were law abiding and hard working. By the fourteenth century these two groups had to wear distinctive clothing, have certain jobs, and live in only certain parts of the city. As this century went on many non-Christians had to change to being Christians.

In 1474 the two major Spanish kingdoms, Castile and Aragon were united in a marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon, and Isabella of Castile. Together they had chosen to give Spain a new religion, Catholicism. By 1485 the Spanish Inquisition had begun. Anyone could be investigated to see their Catholic beliefs. Those who did not believe or failed the investigation were burned a stake. The Christian rulers also decided that no Christian should have Moorish of Jewish ancestors.

In 1491, Ferdinand and Isabella gave all the Jewish people four months to get baptized or they would have to leave Spain. Many of the Jews thought they could go to Portugal but they were kicked out of there as well. Approximately 160,000 Jews went to the Ottoman Empire, about 20,000 Jewish people died on their journey east, and 50,000 Jews accepted Baptism.

By 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella conquered Granada and finally ended the Reconquista. Then they both gave the same option to the moors that the Jewish people got. The option was to get baptized and convert, or you will be banished from Spain.

By 1526, they were no Muslims left in Spain because the moors were technically Christian. However they still spoke Arabic, primarily in Granada. Some moors even practised their religion privately, even some of the Jews did this. Both of these groups were scared of death by the Christians because if they get investigated they would be burned and exposed in public.

At the time of 1566, speaking Arabic or possessing Arab documents was forbidden. In the time of 1589 to 1614 all of the Moors had to leave Spain. They were all banished. It is said that approximately 300,000 Moors were kicked out of Spain. Even the ones who had become Christians. 
In these years Arabs, Jews, and Christians have fought, if we could just solve without fighting.

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