Question

How did the Reconquista affect Spanish national identity between the 1060s and 1492?

Answer 1

It transformed from a nation of three major religions to a nature of one religion.

Answer 2

it paved the way for unification and consolidated Christianity in the region and Spain as a buffer for limiting Islam in Europe.

Step-by-step explanation:

While the Arabs who practiced the Islamic religion enriched the cultural, social landscape of the Spanish kingdoms, they also created a element common that served as the justification for promotion a non existent notion of unity among the kingdoms of Castille, Aragon, etc.

This kingdoms had to give up their differences and formed a common frontline promoting the effort to expel the Muslims out of Spain and by doing so the notions for a Spanish sense of belonging or identity developed in the region. After 1492 a notion of Spanish identity began to emerge.