Question

What was the Reconquista?

the attack on pagans in the Baltic region
the defeat of Constantinople by the merchants of Venice
the effort by Crusaders to free Jerusalem from Muslim rule
the expulsion of Muslims and Jewish people from Spain

Answer 1

The Reconquista was the centuries‑long effort by Christian kingdoms to reconquer the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim (Al‑Andalus) rule. Of the options given, the closest is "the expulsion of Muslims and Jewish people from Spain" — that expulsion was a consequence of the Reconquista’s final phase (culminating in 1492), but it does not fully define the Reconquista itself.