Strengths and Weaknesses of Castile and Aragon
Strengths of Aragon
Weaknesses of Aragon
Strengths of Castile
Weaknesses of Castile
Strong wool trade 🐑
Large Population 👨👩👦👦 ⬆
Single coinage and language💰
Strong economy
Peripatetic
Unified- one cortes
Outward sea trade ⛵
Clashes with Portugal, France and Aragon⚔
Struggles in North ⬆
Religiously Divided ✝✡☪
Previous King left crown weak👑❌
Farming and trade big industries 👨🌾👩🌾
Maintained more freedom and rights 🆓
Traded with Mediterranean
Small population 👩👧 ⬇
Monarchs rarely seen
Religiously Divided ✝✡☪
Less unified- 3 cortes
Poorer than Castile 💲⬇
Richer than Aragon💲⬆
Economy stagnated as result of civil war
Valencia in resurgence
Power of monarch more limited due to fueros which defended the justicia
Power of monarch less limited than Aragon