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They influenced the Iberian Peninsula in the areas of technology, legends, literature, foods, architecture, place names, language, cuisine, music, arts, sciences, mathematics, secret knowledge, universities, books, electricity, baths, religion, astronomy, Astrology, numerology, lessons to those who wee worthy and initiated call Masonry today, the list is endless. For example, the traditional houses of Alentejo and Algarve come from the moors.
The Moors invaded Europe to defeat the Christian Visigoths in the Iberian Peninsula. They intended to spread Islam across this area, which is now known as Spain.
Europe is a large continent, there are several Peninsulas that belong to its territory, among them: The Iberian Peninsula, the Balkans Peninsula, the Italian Peninsula, the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Courland Peninsula, the Crimea Peninsula, the Jutland Peninsula, the Gibraltar Peninsula, the Klek Peninsula and the Walcheren Peninsula.
The last stronghold of the Moors was Granada Spain.
Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. It has a northern border with Spain and although takes care of its own affairs is still governed by the UK.
The voyages of Christopher Columbus beginning in 1492 changed the world dramatically. Here are some important changes: A. The voyages of Columbus, in a short amount of time, revealed to Europe that an immense new hemisphere was there to be explored and made into new settlements. Much more so than the colonies they had already discovered and colonized in Africa and Asia; B. For Spain especially, which had just forced the Moors out of the Iberian peninsula, it gave Spain a new sphere of influence and wealth that allowed her to bring her power up to the standards of France and England; and C. The 1492 voyage was the beginning, a slow beginning to the end of the Native American empires and of the Tribal nations in North America.