Not sure what point you’re making exactly? The Umayyads colonised/conquered Iberia and drove the christian Visigoths out, and after some centuries the christian kingdoms reconquered/colonised the land and drove the muslims of Al-Andalus out.
Not sure I’d really call either colonialism rather than conquest tbh.
You say drove them out but that’s not true. The vast majority of residents stayed. It’s not like all the Christians left, most of them stayed and paid the tax or converted. The so-called reconquest was of people that had been living there for hundreds of years and whose ancestors have been living there even longer.
Also important to remember that the visogoths were a very small ruling class. A very recent one too.
It was definitely more conquest than colonization.
The more interesting thing is that the Ummayads conquered most of Iberia in like 7-8 years. The Reconquista took 7 centuries and wasn’t completed until 1492.
Incidentally some of the hardened veterans of the late Reconquista were the ones who would go on to annihilate the Aztec empire (didn’t help that the Aztecs had a lot of surrounding nations that they had subjugated that hated them) and commit some of the worst atrocities in this history of European colonialism including treating the natives of the new world as slaves in their race for resource extraction.
The resources extracted in the new world would help build a lot of the nice architecture we see in modern day Spain, but it also cause inflation that destroyed Spain’s productive economy.
Here’s a video that explains that last part (to be taken with a huge grain of salt - lot of absolutes stated here, but the overall thing did happen):
Not sure what point you’re making exactly? The Umayyads colonised/conquered Iberia and drove the christian Visigoths out, and after some centuries the christian kingdoms reconquered/colonised the land and drove the muslims of Al-Andalus out.
Not sure I’d really call either colonialism rather than conquest tbh.
You say drove them out but that’s not true. The vast majority of residents stayed. It’s not like all the Christians left, most of them stayed and paid the tax or converted. The so-called reconquest was of people that had been living there for hundreds of years and whose ancestors have been living there even longer.
Also important to remember that the visogoths were a very small ruling class. A very recent one too.
It was definitely more conquest than colonization.
The more interesting thing is that the Ummayads conquered most of Iberia in like 7-8 years. The Reconquista took 7 centuries and wasn’t completed until 1492.
Incidentally some of the hardened veterans of the late Reconquista were the ones who would go on to annihilate the Aztec empire (didn’t help that the Aztecs had a lot of surrounding nations that they had subjugated that hated them) and commit some of the worst atrocities in this history of European colonialism including treating the natives of the new world as slaves in their race for resource extraction.
The resources extracted in the new world would help build a lot of the nice architecture we see in modern day Spain, but it also cause inflation that destroyed Spain’s productive economy.
Here’s a video that explains that last part (to be taken with a huge grain of salt - lot of absolutes stated here, but the overall thing did happen):
https://youtu.be/Mqde3Oeo7Rg