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THE REIGN OF THE CATHOLIC MONARCHS
RELIGIOUS POLICY
Aims of the Catholic monarchs
main political objective: establish religious unity in their domains
prevent revolts and internal divisions.
Jews and Muslims were expelled.
Jews
persecuted by the Christian population towards the end of the Middle Ages.
15th century, this anti-Semitism increased.
1492, the monarchs forced them to convert to Christianity. Those who didn´t want has to go from the country
Sephardic Jews, conversos
Christians believed that the Jews offended God.
Mudéjar
Muslims who lived in Christian territories
1492, Cardinal Cisneros forced them to be baptised
many of them revolted in the Alpujarras and they were expelled from Castilla in 1502 and from Aragón in 1526.
FOREIGN POLICY
main objectives
unification of the Iberian Peninsula
a, the isolation of France
the consolidation of the Crown of Aragón in the Mediterranean
the expansion across the Atlantic.
Diplomatic and military strategies sed to achieve these.
Diplomatic
Union with Portugal
Isabella of Aragon to King Manuel I of Portugal
heir son, Miguel, was due to inherit the three kingdom
Isolation of France
1493 an agreement was reached with France
the territories of Roussillon and Cerdanya returned to Aragón
France continued to be their main enemy
monarchs formed political agreements marrying their children to kings and princes of other European kingdoms.
Military
outside the Iberian Peninsula
Northern Africa
Melilla, Oran and Bugia were conquered
Italy
The forces of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba the Great Captain', defeated the French at the battles of Cerignola and Garigliano
The Atlantic Ocean
The Canary Islands were conquered
inside the Iberian Peninsula
1492, Boabdi surrendered the last existing Muslim state on the Peninsula.
1512, Ferdinand the Catholic' conquered Navarra
