crossed the Pyrenees, Alans, Vandals, and Suevi swept over the peninsula. The unity of Hispania under Rome was destroyed, and was not to be recreated for another thousand years. In 412 AD the Visigoth brought their armies in and became the dominant power. From 417 to 717, The King of Toulouse implanted Roman Culture and Christianity in the peninsula. Euric ruled at the height of Visigothic power in the 5 century and codified the Roman and Gothic Law. During the years of 586 to 601 the Roman Catholic religion became the official state religion.In 711 Muslim armies invaded the Iberian Peninsula, under the leadership of Tariq-lbn-Ziyad. In two years they succeeded in capturing most of Spain. After 717 the country was ran by emirs, and the last of the Spanish emir of Abd-ar-Rahman. In 756, Abd-ar-Rahamn founded the powerful and independent emirate, which later developed into the caliphates of Cordoba. During the establishment of the moors power, a small portion of Christianity still hung on in the northern portion of the peninsula. With the death of Hisham III came the Umayyad dynasty and left the door open for the Christian King of Spain to regain control. The Abbadids of Servile between 1023 and 1091 established a temporary revival of central power. In 1086 Toledo was recaptured by the Christians, and in a great battle fought in July of 1212, the Almohads were defeated and expelled form Spain shortly after. The Moorish power was then limited to some ports around Cadiz and to the Kingdom of Granada, which endured until 1492 and was one of the greatest and most splendid of Muslim realms.The wedding of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand V of Aragon initiated the start of great power for Spain, but this was a union of crowns, not kingdoms. Each region maintained its own leadership, government, traditions, and rules of succession. In 1480 Isabella convoked a great Cortes (parliament) at Toledo, which laid the legislative basis fo...
