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===Visigothic Spain and its Conquest===

===Visigothic Spain and its Conquest===

Spain declined. Suspicion that Jews were aiding Muslims in planning to attack led them to be forcibly baptized. In 711, Moors from Africa attacked. They quickly conquered all of it but the far north. A great culture florished and religious tolerance generally reigned. Christian kingdoms in the north were buttressed by Charlemagne's conquest of Barcelona and began planning to retake Spain from the heretics. The Reconquista (reconquest) would begin in earnest under El Cid only a few decades before the Crusades.

Spain declined. Suspicion that Jews were aiding Muslims in planning to attack led them to be forcibly baptized. In 711, Moors from Africa attacked. They quickly conquered all of it but the far north. A great culture flourished and religious tolerance generally reigned. Christian kingdoms in the north were buttressed by Charlemagne's conquest of Barcelona and began planning to retake Spain from the heretics. The Reconquista (reconquest) would begin in earnest under El Cid only a few decades before the Crusades.

===Merovingian Francia===

===Merovingian Francia===