Kind of neat that the Reconquista finished almost at the same time as the discovery of the New World.
What would the Americas be like if Iberia stayed Islamic? Would Central & South America be full of Muslims or would England/France get there first?
Muslim Spain had rich cities but low population growth
The Muslims in Spain relied heavily on their North African brothers to help them - but the rapacious Berber ended up taking over Muslim Spain did their part in bringing down that splendid civilization. It wasn't all the "fault" of the Christian conquerors.
>>1064387
I find it interesting that while Muslims were getting BTFO in a culturally important but distant region in the west, Christians were getting BTFO in a culturally important but distant region in the east. I'm sure Muslims see the Alhambra in the same way Christians see Hagia Sophia.
>>1064387
The Italian factor should not be underestimated. They were the prime movers of the Atlantic exploration business - they brought in the capital and the expertise, both commercial and technical
>>1064387
Actually I doubt that all of South America and Central America would be colonized by Iberia.
Probably France and England would be the first to colonize Central America and North America.
Muslims in Iberia would definitely colonize as well but they would lose the edge of being the first one there. I think I heard somewhere that the French were generally more kinder to the natives, so modern day Carribeans and Central america would probably still retain mostly native genetics.
>>1064428
>I'm sure Muslims see the Alhambra in the same way Christians see Hagia Sophia.
>taking Hispania back from Muslim invaders is the same as Muslims invading the ERE
Whelp
>>1064428
>Christianity will never recover Constantinople
>A mass will never be celebrated again in the Hagia Sophia
>The minarets will never be destroyed
It hurts.
>>1064387
Probably the Iberian Christians would have discovered the Americas anyway, but Castille would have need to use the ports from Galicia instead of Seville and Cadiz.
So, probably the Spanish-speaking part of Latin America would today speak with a Galician-derived accent, instead of using an Andalusian-derived one.
And Galicia would have been richer than it was historically. Maybe that would have resulted in the possibility of a nationalist bourgeoisie (alla Catalana).
It's even possible that by now it would have gained independence from those Castillian apes, aiding and being aided by an also independent Catalonia and Euskadi.
Fucking weak-ass moors...
>>1064489
>implying that isabella would've still funded colombus with that much of the reconquista left
>>1064512
>Implying that bitch would have won the Succession War in that hypothetical smaller Castille (less power for the nobles that helped her), instead of the rightful Juana de Trastámara (Queen consort of Portugal, i.e. the money of two Kingdoms to give to the wanna- be-Marco-Polo).
>>1064489
Seville and Cadiz were already Castilian by the mid XIII.
>>1064454
Make it a church I don't care but the minarets stay.
