| >The descendants of the Muslim colonists Yes, colonists, nonnative invaders. >were defeated by the descendants of the Roman colonists Incorrect, by native Spaniards whose ancestry is overwhelmingly indigenous: "Modern Iberians' genetic inheritance largely derives from the pre-Roman inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula who were deeply Romanized after the conquest of the region by the ancient Romans"[0] They are the indigenous people to Iberia, not MENA colonists nor Romans. >fighting under the banner of the Roman Church Not relevant, still indigenous people. >and not by the native and indigenous people of the Iberian peninsula. False as proven above. >The native and indigenous people of the Iberian peninsula would be the Celtic, Iberian, Celtiberian and Aquitanian tribes conquered, colonized, and assimilated by the Roman Republic. Spaniards are Iberian, they are the indigenous, native people to Spain. They may have been assimilated into the Roman Republic and Visigothic Kingdom, but they are the indigenous people to their lands. >The land was later occupied by the Germanic peoples before entering Muslim rule. Germaic influences leave a smaller genetic mark than Roman in modern Iberia. "Spaniards, or Spanish people, are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to Spain."[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_the_Iberian... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaniards |