is spain the most powerful contry during the medieval times ??

Question

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Answer 1

Well, Spain as we know it wasn't a country in the Middle Ages, but rather a collection of kingdoms such as Castile, Leon, Aragon, and various centers of Islam, such as Cordova and Granada.

There was a lot of fighting going on there, as the "Reconquista" (the reconquest of Spain from the Moors) lasted several hundred years. The country was more or less unified by Ferdinand and Isabella in the late 1400's, when they finally conquered Granada, the last Muslim kingdom in what is now Spain.

Therefore, Spain only became the most powerful country in Europe AFTER the Middle Ages--it was during the late Renaissance and early modern time that it reached its peak, when it was a part of the Hapsburg empire.

Answer 2

Spain was the first modern state, after the reunification of 1492 when Granada, the last Muslim stronghold, was reconquered. They acquired the territories in the Americas with the exception of Brazil, when Pope Alexander VI granted Spain the right to colonize the so called New World in the Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494.
Spain became an empire in the fifteenth century, under Charles V, king of Spain and the Netherlands and Holy Roman Emperor.
It was the most powerful nation in Europe until the eighteenth century.

Answer 3

Not during the medieval era which saw the invasion by the Muslims and the following 'reconquista' by the Christians when the Muslims started squabbling and fighting between themselves, but during the Renaissance. It was a huge empire.
As its peak during the 16th century it ruled a good chunk of South America, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Portugal and spent its time trying to add France to the bag and even tried to invade England (the Armada). The gold mines of South America paid for all that, and were its biggest weakness. That gold blinded the rulers to the real price of the numerous wars they started and to the growing backwardness of the country itself. Spain lived on American gold and didn't develop its own economy or industry.
It was a paradox that the richest country in Europe managed to spend so much that it was ruined despite all that gold. The numerous internal revolts from all the other European countries did not help and Spain declined. By the 18th century it had lost all its ascendency.

Answer 4

It was apparently the country through which most Arabic philosophy, science and medicine came through, to then spread throughout Europe in the 1200s.

The northern part of Spain became very rich, the southern part ranch country... and it all happened because of the jockeying of various types of Muslims and followers of Islam.

This "jockeying" was done by the Spanish Crusaders and others, in the name of Christianity, which had the country absorb what was wanted and leave the rest to fend for itself.

Read it for yourself if you like, on the following link:
under Medieval Spain

Answer 5

no, spain was having a civil war between the catholics and the moors.