What religion was Spain before Christianity?

Before the arrival of Christianity, the Iberian Peninsula was home to a multitude of animist and polytheistic practices, including Celtic, Greek, and Roman theologies.
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What religion did Spain bring?

Catholicism has had a longstanding influence on the culture and society of Spain since it became the official religion in 589.
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What was Spain's religion in 1492?

Muslim Spain (711-1492)
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What religion was Spain in the 1400s?

When King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella ruled Spain in the 1400s and 1500s, they decreed that all Spaniards must become Roman Catholics. People who practiced other religions, such as Islam or Judaism, where forced to change religions.
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What was Spain's first religion?

History of Spain Religion

Christianity, specifically Catholicism, spread throughout the peninsula during the Roman Empire and into the Visigoth occupation. Though the Visigoths practiced Arian Christianity, the Visigoth king converted to Catholicism and established the religion as the religion of the kingdom.
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When did Islam start in Spain?

On April 30, 711, Muslim General Tariq ibn-Ziyad landed at Gibraltar and by the end of the campaign most of the Iberian Peninsula (except for small areas in the north-west such as Asturias and the Basque territory) were brought under Islamic rule.
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Why did the Spanish convert the Aztecs to Christianity?

Because some of the Aztecs believed that Cortes was Quetzalcoatl they obeyed him and they converted to Catholicism. What is more, if any of the Aztecs were to rebel against the destruction of their religious icons, the Spaniards were instructed to fight back.
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Are there still Moors in Spain?

This culminated in 1492, when Catholic monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I won the Granada War and completed Spain's conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Eventually, the Moors were expelled from Spain.
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When did Catholicism start in Spain?

The Catholic Church in Spain has a long history, starting in the 1st century. It is the largest religion in Spain, with 58.6% of Spaniards identifying as Catholic.
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What did the Spanish think of the Aztecs religion?

The Spanish were horrified by the idea that the Aztecs believed in deities that frequently expected blood and hearts from their worshippers, especially when these were obtained in such a brutal way.
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What race is a Moor?

Today, the term Moor is used to designate the predominant Arab-Amazigh ethnic group in Mauritania (which makes up more than two-thirds of the country's population) and the small Arab-Amazigh minority in Mali.
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Who are the black Moors of Spain?

They were Black Muslims of Northwest African and the Iberian Peninsula during the medieval era. This included present-day Spain and Portugal as well as the Maghreb and western Africa, whose culture is often called Moorish.
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Who ruled Spain before the Moors?

The Reconquista was a centuries-long series of battles by Christian states to expel the Muslims (Moors), who from the 8th century ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula. Visigoths had ruled Spain for two centuries before they were overrun by the Umayyad empire.
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What was Mexico's original religion?

Mexico does not have an official religion. However, Roman Catholicism is the dominant faith and deeply culturally pervasive. It is estimated over 80% of the population identifies as Catholic.
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What religion was the Aztec?

MATOS MOCTEZUMA: The Aztec religion was primarily polytheist. They had different gods, male and female. The sun god was Tonatiuh. There were many deities, and they were revered in monthly festivities with rich offerings.
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How was the Aztec religion different from Christianity?

The Aztecs, like other Mesoamerican societies, had a wide pantheon of gods. As such they were a polytheistic society, which means they had many gods and each god represented different important parts of the world for Aztec people. Whereas a monotheistic religion, such as Christianity, only has one god.
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How did the Spanish convert the natives to Christianity?

Under encomienda, Spanish colonists were granted a certain amount of land and the labor of the people who lived on it. The system was later transported to Spanish settlements on the mainland. Supposedly, the colonists would pay the native people for their labor and convert them to Christianity.
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Was France Protestant or Catholic?

France's population of 28 million was almost entirely Catholic, with full membership of the state denied to Protestant and Jewish minorities. Being French effectively meant being Catholic. Yet, by 1794, France's churches and religious orders were closed down and religious worship suppressed.
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Why did Moors invade Spain?

Western historians say they invaded seeking only loot and land. As they did elsewhere. Eastern historians say they were responding to a call to arms against the king of Spain; by a neighboring Spaish duke whose daughter was molested by the king of Spain.
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Where did the Moors go after Spain?

They were known as the Moors and they came to Europe from what is now known as Morocco.
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What is a black Moor person?

So-called blackamoors, or Black Moors, were Black servants, originally enslaved North Africans, who worked in wealthy European households from the 15th-18th centuries.
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What is the difference between Aztecs and Mayans?

The main difference between Aztec and Mayan is that Aztec civilization was in central Mexico from 14th to 16th century and expanded throughout Mesoamerica, while the Mayan empire branched all over a vast territory in northern Central America and southern Mexico from 2600 BC.
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