Resistance was punished severely, giving rise to the "Black Legend".

As such, it is a part of the Spanish Black Legend and one of its most recurrent themes.

This process is called the Black Legend in Spanish historiography.

Anthropologists have shown there was more intermarriage and assimilation than previously believed (see the Black Legend).

Thus a 14th-century claim became a part of the Black Legend.

The origin of the Black Legend can also be traced to self-critical texts from within Spain itself.

All of this contributed to the evolution of the Black Legend.

One version in the form of the film,The Black Legend, has popularised the story.

However, some historians classify this anti-Spanish analysis as part of the Black Legend.

This event also added to Spain's Black Legend.