The Reconquista was primarily a long struggle between which two groups for control of the Iberian Peninsula?

Christian kingdoms and Moorish rulers

Spanish nobles and French invaders

The Pope and the Byzantine Emperor

Merchants from Portugal and traders from Italy

What important event in 1085 gave the Christian forces a major strategic and symbolic victory during the Reconquista?

The marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella

The beginning of the Crusades in the Holy Land

The fall of the important city of Toledo

The final collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate

The southern coast near Granada

The central plains around Córdoba

The small kingdoms in the northern mountains

It was the final battle that ended all Muslim rule in Spain.

It resulted in the creation of the independent kingdom of Portugal.

It was a major victory and a key turning point that greatly advanced the Christian campaign.

It led to a peace treaty that divided the peninsula equally between Christians and Muslims.