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Sent 1: The Reconquest: The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims.
Sent 2: After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, before Christian kings and warlords succeeded in subduing the Moors.
Sent 3: On 10 September 1229, a Catalan army led by King Jaume I of Aragón and Catalunya took the Mallorcan shore near the present-day resort of Santa Ponça.
Sent 4: The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma, but on the last day of 1229 the city fell, and pockets of resistance throughout the island were also defeated.
Sent 5: Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler who profited from the talents of the Moors — converted by force to Christianity — as well as of the island's large Jewish and Genoese trading communities.
Sent 6: Mallorca prospered.
Sent 7: The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragón and were left in peace.
Sent 8: The island's tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Aragón, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion.
Sent 9: The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed.
Sent 10: In contrast to Mallorca, Menorca's economy was devastated for decades.
Sent 11: Jaume I died after reigning in Aragón for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite.
Sent 12: At first this resulted in an Independent Kingdom of Mallorca, under Jaume II, followed by Sanç and Jaume III.
Sent 13: But family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for Aragón.
Sent 14: Attempting a comeback, Jaume was killed in battle near Llucmajor in 1349.
Sent 15: A newly unified Christian Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, completed the Reconquest, defeating the only Moorish enclave left on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, in 1492.
Sent 16: However, the centralized kingdom failed to incorporate the Balearics politically or economically.

Question: What did the moors try to do to keep the peace and this this keep them from being subdued? (true/0)

Pay an annual tribute
The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to AragÃ³n and were left in peace
Sign a peace treaty
Allowed Aragon access to trading communities
The moors agreed to be slaves
The Moors were finally subdued but at one time paid annual tribute to be left in peace
Agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragon

Question: Who led the army that caused the fall of the city of Palma? (false/1)

Question: Although the Moors speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragón, what happened to them? (false/2)

killed
Economy was devastated
The Moors were forced to convert to Christianity
The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed after an invasion
Expelled
Defeated
Islandâs tranquility lasted
The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed
They were left in peace

Question: What kind of ruler was King Jaume 1? (true/3)

Question: What caused a tranquility on the island of Menorca that lasted until 1287? (true/4)

Pay an annual tribute
The Moors converted to Christianity
The annual tribute that the Moors agreed to pay to Alfonso III
Contrast to Mallorca
Juame I was an enlightened leader
The conversion to Christianity
The Moors on Menorca agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragón

Question: What was the purpose of the many battles in Spain and how long did it take (true/5)

The purpose of the battle was to rid of the muslims which took about 400 years
To subdue the Moors
To end Christain Spain
To unify spain
The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims
400 years
To retake the land
200 years

Question: Who took the Mallorcan shore what happened to the defenders? (true/6)

An army led by King Pedro
They were killed
They were taken captive
It was taken by King Jaume. They defenders retreated but were later defeated
The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma,
King Jaume I of AragÃ³n
An army led by King Jaume of Aragon
They retreated
King Henry

Question: Where did the defenders go when a Catalan army led by King Jaume I of Aragón and Catalunya took the Mallorcan shore near the present-day resort of Santa Ponça. (false/7)

Question: Why was Menorca's economy devastated for decades? (false/8)

Alfonso III of Aragón found a pretext for invasion
They converted to Christianity
Annual tribute to AragÃ³n
Because the Moors were defeated by the invasion led by Alfonso III of AragÃ³n
Alfonso III of AragÃ³n invaded
Due to a series of humiliations at the hands of the nobles
Contrast to Mallorca
The Moors had to pay tribute to Aragon

Question: What three things did we learn about the Moors? (false/9)

It took 400 years to subdue them, they paid tribute to keep peace, and the last Moorish enclave was defeated in 1492
They were slaves
They had talents that could be used by Spain, they speedily paid tribute, despite all efforts they were still defeated/killed
Only to be killed
Paid a tribute to be left alone
They tried to survive
Were eventually killed
The Moors reigned after 1492, it took 200 years to subdue them, and they ultimately conquered over Christian Spain
Then they were free

Question: Jaume was defeated by whom and died in what year? (true/10)

In 1229 by Alfonso III
He was overthrown by his mother
Family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for AragÃ³n. Sent 14: Attempting a comeback, Jaume was killed in battle near Llucmajor in 1349
killed in battle Llucmajor in 1349
Pedro IV
Jaume was killed by his cousin Pedro the IV in the year 1349