Reconquista is a little known period(There was a TON I had to learn!) that lasted from 718 until 1492, almost 800 years!  What complicates this period is learning all of the players.  There were revolts and suppression in the Roman period, Celtic waves(at least 2), Muslim Caliphates, a plethora of Catholic kingdoms and during all this the Jews play a large part in both the Catholic and Muslim controlled regions. 

Reconquista was a push to remove Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula(modern day Spain and Portugal) and return it to European Papal control.

The Iberian was a Carthaginian colony and later taken over as a frontier region of Rome.  Much of what you will hear about the region in contemporary archaeology is how the evil Europeans kicked out the nice Arabs and about how the nice Arabs brought culture to the region.  It is all bogus.  Much of the infrastructure was there from Roman times, the architecture was evolved from the Visogoths and Muslims were notorious for allowing locals to continue to run things for them because they lacked the ability to properly administer states.

What was that word I said?

Where did I source that info from?

Check the site for a timeline of events.

https://historicaltimelines.blogspot.com/2020/07/reconquista-and-birth-of-crusades.html

Reconquista is a little known period(There was a TON I had to learn!) that lasted from 718 until 1492, almost 800 years!  What complicates this period is learning all of the players.  There were revolts and suppression in the Roman period, Celtic waves(at least 2), Muslim Caliphates, a plethora of Catholic kingdoms and during all this the Jews play a large part in both the Catholic and Muslim controlled regions. 

What was that word I said?

Check the site for a timeline of events.

Follow along and get more info: https://historicaltimelines.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-spanish-armada-and-last-crusade.html

Lets address the "Last Crusade" part.  You wont see this listed in a normal list of crusades, BUT it was a crusade because Queen Elizabeth I was excommunicated(Sixtus even renewed it just in case)  and King Philip II was given the rights to issue crusade taxes and pope Sixtus v was offering a million crowns if Philip II landed the invasion force on England.

Forget everything you think you know about Lincoln aka "Honest Abe".  He crafted his persona on the campaign trial and developed the honest hard working simple guy image with propaganda.  Lincoln understood the importance of image.  He was the most professionally photographed politician of his day because he wanted to control the images that were going around. Lincoln was a well off railroad lawyer.  He did, occasionally, take on pro bono work, but he worked for the richest companies in the US at the time the railroads.  Lincoln was also the president to usher in the era of a constantly growing federal government.

While Darwin's Theory covers evolution it has undergone a pretty extensive evolution itself.  Other supporting ideas have been added to prop his concept up.  His ideas are slight tweaks on ancient Greek teachings by Aristotle, Anaximander, Pliny, ect.  A theory is subject to being disproven, but when evolution hits a roadblock it just expands the timeline.  A complete look at a Historical Timeline we can show us how the theory changed over time to become what it is today. In fact, Darwin's Theory is what helps scientist determine the age of the Earth while Darwin's theory(today's version) points to the age of the Earth as a piece of evidence supporting it.  It is called circular reasoning. The most important thing you need to understand is the origin of the Earth and Evolution are not science.  By their own admission it is impossible to observe them.  These ideas are a belief system no different from a religious belief in a deity creating things.

 Soleimani was killed by a US drone in Iraq.  His death sparked fears of World War III, but who was he? Let's take a look at who he was, what made him the "Shadow Commander" and what made some call him "bigger than Osama Bin Laden".   

3 parts

 Soleimani was killed by a US drone in Iraq.  His death sparked fears of World War III, but who was he? Let's take a look at who he was, what made him the "Shadow Commander" and what made some call him "bigger than Osama Bin Laden".  

3 parts

Soleimani was killed by a US drone in Iraq.  His death sparked fears of World War III, but who was he? Let's take a look at who he was, what made him the "Shadow Commander" and what made some call him "bigger than Osama Bin Laden".  

3 parts

https://historicaltimelines.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-rise-and-fall-of-soleimani.html