>>12880388>>12880392>>12880406>>12880424Hispania was made by first by Romans, then by Visigoths, and finally by the catholic kings. You are somewhat right, sven. The kingdom of Toledo was the first time in which Spain, once the councils and catholic reforms started to happen and the peninsula was consolidated, was created as an independent ''nation'' (making it one of the oldest, if not the oldest nation of Europe). Racially, visigoths had almost no impact. Culturally, they were absorbed, but, the same Germanic tribalism that led to so much infight and civil wars, was exactly what inspired the Reconquista from the north as the muslims invaded. Truly, the Reconquista was a legacy of the Visigothic kingdom. And if it wasn't because of it, it would have not been a racial war too. The Visigothic aristocracy that was invaded, rapidly converted, but those who didn't, those in the north, led the spirit of such campaing. And that spirit was racialist (even tho iberian-visigothic). If it wasn't because of the legacy of the visigoths, Spain wouldn't have been the first european nation to have a racial identity. I would argue that racialism as a whole was born in Spain (even tho its racialism isn't purist, rather moralist and about soil and ancestors). The germanic peoples had a great impact on Spain, even after the reconquista with the habsburgs. If it wasn't because of the protestant revolution, Spain would have been fully integrated into a centralized Holy Roman Empire. At the end, our golden age was thanks to the germanic nobility (while the peninsular aristocracy revolted in crucial times of war, such as catalonia and others)
