Identifier: medivalmodernh01myer (find matches)
Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern
Publisher: Boston, London, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nada, a potent and opulent city, with a population ofalmost a quarter of a milHon. All these cities, particularly thecapital, were enriched with superb specimens of Moorish archi-tecture, many of the palaces of the wealthy being decoratedwith fabulous magnificence. As soon as Ferdinand and Isabella had settled the affairs oftheir dominions, they began to make preparation for the con-quest of Granada, eager to signalize their reign by the reductionof this last stronghold of the Moorish power in the peninsula. The Moors made a desperate defense of their Httle state.The struggle lasted for ten years. City after city fell into thehands of the Christian knights, and finally Granada, pressed byan army of seventy thousand, was forced to surrender, and theCross replaced the Crescent on its walls and towers (1492).The Moors, or Moriscos, as they were called, were allowed toremain in the country, though under many annoying restric-tions. What is known as their expulsion occurred at a laterdate.
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Effects of the MaorisJi Wars 407 The fall of Granada holds an important place among themany significant events that mark the latter half of the fifteenthcentury. It marked the end, after an existence of almost eighthmidred years, of Mohammedan rule in the Spanish peninsula,and thus formed an offset to the progress of the Moslem powerin Eastern Europe and the loss to the Christian world of Con-stantinople. It advanced Spain to a place among the foremostnations of Europe, and gave her arms a jirestige that securedfor her position, influence, and deference long after the decHneof her power had commenced. 355. Influence upon the Spanish Character of the MoorishDomination and the Moorish Wars. — The long wars which theSpanish Christians waged against the Arab Moors left a deepimpress upon the national character. In the first place, theopportunity which they afforded for knightly service andromantic adventure heightened that chivalrous spirit of whichmore than traces are noticeable in the

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