Changes

The Muslim empire continued to threaten Spain and repeatedly attempted to reconquer it from Muslim strongholds in northern Africa.  It was not until 1492 that the armies of Ferdinand and Isabella were able to defeat the last Muslim fighters in Spain.  But they feared the continuing threat and told the Muslim Moors to convert to Christianity or leave.  There was a small but influential Jewish community that thrived within the Muslim society at the time, and the order to convert or leave applied to them also.

The Muslim empire continued to threaten Spain and repeatedly attempted to reconquer it from Muslim strongholds in northern Africa.  It was not until 1492 that the armies of Ferdinand and Isabella were able to defeat the last Muslim fighters in Spain.  But they feared the continuing threat and told the Muslim Moors to convert to Christianity or leave.  There was a small but influential Jewish community that thrived within the Muslim society at the time, and the order to convert or leave applied to them also.

After the Reformation, the Spanish Inquisition was used with less violence to combat Protestantism.  It was disbanded in the 1800s.  Today Spain is virtually 100% Catholic, but in name only, as Spain is one of the few countries that has legalized gay marriage.  Its economy is socialistic, a mere shell of the mighty empire that it was in the 1500s.

After the Reformation, this "Spanish Inquisition" was used with less violence to combat Protestantism.  It was disbanded in the 1800s.  Today Spain is virtually 100% Catholic, but in name only, as Spain is one of the few countries that has legalized gay marriage.  Its economy is socialistic, a mere shell of the mighty empire that it was in the 1500s.

===Effects of the Reformation===

===Effects of the Reformation===