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The Crusades did have an effect on the Reconquista. In the early days, the wars in Iberia were local conflicts between various Muslim emirs and Christian lords, with Christians such as El Cid even serving in Muslim armies, and with Muslim emirates often fighting other Muslims. To the extent there was an overriding ideology on the Christian side, it was more secular - reestablishing the Visigothic kingdom. After the Crusades bagan, though, the Reconquista assumed a more explicitly religious character (unfortunately for the Jews most of all), and the various alliances consolidated into more straightforward Muslim vs. Christian lines. Also, knightly orders were formed for the fight, non-Spanish kingdoms sent aid, and veterans of the fights in the Holy Land arrived, bringing their fervor with them.
The Reconquista eventually succeeded in 1492, but it took almost eight hundred years.
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