Granted that people seek religion as a means of peace and conflict resolution, it is widely believed that misinterpretation of religion is one of the fundamental reasons for the evolution of warfare in the whole world. History demonstrates this with countless wars and evolutionary episodes, one of which occurred in what we now call Spain. Over a thousand years ago, southern Spain was the home of Jews, Christians and Muslims who lived together, intertwining and settling the best of their land through different means. Unfortunately, this reunion was vanished and lost forever. In the 6th century it aroused a mild hatred of the Jews among the Visgoth Christians. Despite the peace and relative freedom that Jews once encountered, Christians began to persecute them and force them to convert to Christianity because they posed a threatening force. Those two faiths struggled, one for survival and the other for dominance. On the other hand, a prosperous religion now known as Islam began its conquest in the Middle East reaching North Africa. There the Islamic empire strengthened itself by converting large numbers of native tribesmen called “Berbers.” The Berbers began to improve their physical abilities while an Islamic leader known as Tariq Bin Ziad set his sights on vulnerable Visgoth Spain with the aim of sending the message of Islam abroad. In 711, the ferocious Tariq Bin Ziad and his fierce warriors reached southern Spain and faced the Visigothic king at the Battle of Guadalete. The Muslim empire conquered the Christians, thus giving the Muslims a new land. In the Islamic conquest, Muslims conquered large areas consisting of distinct religious members. Muslims believed that all religions should be treated respectably; so Jews and Christians followed…half of paper…practicing Islam. They were called Moriscos and were severely punished. After their execution, Al Andalusia was no longer Al Andalusia, power and dominion fled from their territory. Despite the defeat, Al Andalusia remains powerful for all the culture and knowledge it brought to life. A wise man known as Alexander Von Humboldt proves this by quoting: “That period was a truly dreamlike cultural country. Under enlightened caliphs, the Arabs in Spain developed a civilization that, throughout the Middle Ages until the Renaissance, exerted a pregnant influence on every sphere of human knowledge. (...) Yet this Spanish-Arab period has left us such magnificent testimonies of architectural skill, scientific research and philosophical thought, that far from considering it a dream of the imagination, we know that it is one of the most significant moments of civilization”.
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