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THE REIGN OF THE CATHOLIC MONARCHS, image, image, image - Coggle Diagram

- - - - A permanent army was formed with professional soldiers, which could overpower the militias of the nobility
      - Permission was obtained from the Pope to place Military Orders under the monarchs' control
      - Territories
        
        Most important
        
        Council of Castilla
        
        Aragón and Navarra
        
        Also important
        
        Trained officials began to replace the nobles in these institutions.
      - Specific matters
        
        The Castilian military orders were managed by the Council of Military Orders
        
        The Council of the Supreme Inquisition dealt with matters concerning morals and faith.
      - The royal treasury was given greater powers to control and administrate tax collection.
      - Councils of experts were appointed to advise the monarchs about
        
        The judicial system of Castilla was restructured through the audiencias of Valladolid and Granada, whose judges appointed the kings
        
        A militia, the Santa Hermandad
        
        was created to fight crime and keep the peace in rural Castilla.
    - - The power of the General Courts was reduced.
      - The position of viceroy was created
        
        This figure represented the monarchs in each of their kingdoms in their absence.
      - The Inquisition was established in the kingdom of Castilla in 1478 and was reformed in Aragón to persecute false conversions.
        
        religious court, although it was controlled by the Crown
    - - In Castilla
        
        the monarchs appointed the mayors, who ran the city councils.
      - In Aragón
        
        the sortition system, where local governors were selected by lottery, was maintained.
    - - The diplomatic corps
        
        represented the monarchs in other kingdoms, was expanded.
      - Castilla became an authoritarian monarchy
        
        The Crown of Aragón maintained the pact tradition,
        
        the king made decisions with the approval of the regional institutions.
- - - - were persecuted by the Christian population towards the end of the Middle Ages.
      - The Christians believed that the Jews offended God
      - In 1492
        
        the monarchs forced them to convert to Christianity
        
        Those who did not obey had to sell their assets at a loss and leave their homes
        
        Sephardic Jews.
        
        Those who agreed to convert
        
        were investigated and persecuted by the Inquisition to prevent them from practising their old religion in secret
        
        conversos
    - - MUDÉJAR
        
        were Muslims who lived in Christian territories
        
        The majority were farmers
        
        their departure had a negative impact on agriculture.
      - After the conquest of Granada in 1492
        
        Cardinal Cisneros forced them to be baptised
        
        many of them revolted in the Alpujarras
      - Those who converted
        
        Moriscos
        
        they were also persecuted by the Inquisition