Spain’s Reconquista directly modeled its American colonial arrangements

Evidence

In the era of mercantile imperialism, Spain dominated the New World and built a vast empire. Spain’s Reconquista (its conquest of Muslim Spain) and its spread into Africa and the Canary Islands provided a model for its colonization in the Americas. Thus, the conquistadores had a similar arrangement to the crown as those of military rulers in the Reconquista, where conditional rights were granted in exchange for military services. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 132

Categorization

• XREF: Provides the historical connective tissue between anti-Muslim Reconquista precedent and Atlantic empire that Kumar is building toward in the longer Islamophobia-as-imperial-policy arc. — connects to: American colonial identity was built from medieval Christian and biblical archetypes — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 569; The Expulsion was framed as completing the Reconquista of 711 — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1346
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 132

Broader Connections

• American colonial identity was built from medieval Christian and biblical archetypes #contradicts (0.75) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 569
• The Expulsion was framed as completing the Reconquista of 711 #qualifies (0.72) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1346