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Different groups held Spain at different times. At the beginning of the Middle Ages, it was under the control of the Visigoths and the Suevi. The Byzantines held the southeastern part for a while, and then the Visigoths conquered pretty much the whole of it.
In 711 AD, Muslims invaded and took Spain over. In 722, a revolt began in the mountains of the North West, and this lead to the establishment of a number of Christian kingdoms, including Asturias, Galicia, Leon, Castile, Navarre, Aragon, Catalonia, and Portugal, many of which existed simultaneously.
Finally, At the end of the Middle Ages, Leon had united with Castile, and the union was united with Aragon. The remaining important Christian Kingdoms were Spain and Portugal, and Grenada, the last Muslim kingdom, fell in 1492.
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Where are jousting tornaments held?
i think it was held in the middle ages If you want to see a joust, you can go to a Renaissance Fair or watch the movie "A Knight's Tale."
What was papal supremacy in the middle ages?
Papal supremacy the claim of medieval popes that they held authority over all secular, nonreligious rulers
During the middle ages the church regulated what?
During the Middle Ages, the churches quite often held all the power, dictating laws to the entire area. The church was also the center of social life. Being rejected by the church was devastating.
Is there any difference between Middle Ages Medieval and Dark Ages?
The Dark Ages is a part of the Middle Ages. It is the early Middle Age, when there werea lot of wars and stuff. At this time, there was no centralized government, meaning that most people lived in the countries, and the kings didn't have much power. The power was held by the Lord of an estate, because they had their own army to protect themselves and their people with, while the kings' armies were too slow to defend the people. Because of this, people relied on the Lords, and the only thing connecting all these estates was their religion- Christianity. Christianity was the only centralized power; all obeyed the pope. At this time, they believed that people should be obedient, faithful, and know their place. People slept with their animals (pigs and cows), except for the Lords. However, the late Middle Age was different. The power shifted back to the king, and people moved back to the cities. They got a new agricultural system called the "three-field system", and produced more crops than ever. Compared to the Golden Age that came next, the early Middle Age was dark alright, and that is why some call it the Dark Ages. In most cases, Dark Ages mean early Middle Ages, back in Ancient Greece, when Dorians destroyed the Mycenaean Greece, in the period that literature was lost. For the Middle Ages, look at the paragraph above for specifics.
What is the relationship between landowners and workers in the middle ages?
Land ownership was very different in the middle ages than it is today. Most property in the modern world is "fee simple", meaning it is clearly owned by a single party. Land in the middle ages was very rarely fee simple. There was a number of people who had rights and obligations related to any particular piece of land. The fields of a given village in theory belonged to a great feudal lord. They might have been in turn given to a lesser lord, who became the vassal of the greater lord. This process might be repeated more than once. Some of the fields of the village were held directly by the lord of the manor, others were in turn held by peasant farmers who owed a combination of rents, fees, and labor for the right to posses these fields. The fields of a landlord would be worked by a combination of the the peasants who owed labor for their own land and hired labor as well.
