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Thank you for your input! 

“In 711 Muslim forces invaded and in seven years conquered the Iberian peninsula” (BBC) sounds pretty colonizing to me. 

Isn’t a lot of colonization about the spread of beliefs/religion and people adopting said values? A lot of Christianity has been spread by the same principles. I guess what I’m wondering is does time play a factor when viewing a particular group as a colonizer? For instance in ~800 was the muslim ruling class viewed more negatively by modern standards as a colonizer vs in ~1400 when it was more of the status quo and peaceful adoption of said religion by native spaniards?
gpt
I mean the Spaniards spent hundreds of years trying to kick the Muslims out - so yeah obviously they viewed them pretty harshly.