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To: headsonpikes
Spain's gift to the world is certainly not governance.

Spain's gift to the world was driving the last of the Moors off the European continent. Ironically, it was Ferdinand and Isabella who did it..........

17 posted on 08/09/2006 5:59:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Is Castro dead yet?........)
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To: Red Badger

Yes in Spain, but a Belgium man(Charles Martel) saved Europe as a whole.


21 posted on 08/09/2006 6:03:29 AM PDT by Marius3188 (Happy Resurrection Weekend)
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To: Red Badger
BTW, the Moors, for the most part, simply became Catholics (which had been the custom for 500 years as Moslem areas fell under the rule of Christian rulers, and vice versa.).

No doubt they were first on the boat when the Caribbean was discovered.

25 posted on 08/09/2006 6:07:23 AM PDT by muawiyah (-/sarcasm)
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To: Red Badger

True,they drove the Moors out of Spain but they also expelled all Jews or made them convert under penalty of death.
Nothing in History is black and white.


94 posted on 08/09/2006 2:34:06 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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