Practice question · Estimate
The Hijra falls in 622 and the emirate of Granada surrendered in 1492. Estimate how many years separate them.
Estimate on a scale from 500 years (500) to 1200 years (1200).
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- Subtract the earlier year from the later one.
- 1492 minus 622.
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870 (answers within ±30 count)
Why
870 years. The span is worth feeling as a whole: an Islamic political presence in the Iberian peninsula lasted from 711 to 1492, which is longer than the time from 1492 to the present. "Reconquest" implies a continuous campaign; the reality was long stretches of coexistence, tribute and alliance across the same frontier.
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