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FOREIGN POLICY
The Catholic Monarchs' main objectives
Unification of the Iberian Peninsula
Isolation of France
Consolidation of the Crown of Aragón
in the Mediterranean
Expansion across the Atlantic
to achieve these
Diplomatic strategies
Military strategies
Diplomatic
monarchs formed
political agreements
alliances by marrying their children
to kings
to princes of the European kingdom
Union with Portugal
monarchs married
Isabella of Aragón
to King Manuel I of Portugal
their oldest daughter
Miguel
their son
was due to inherit the three kingdoms
but these persons died
both mother
son
Maria
was then married to the widowed king
Isolation of France
1493
an agreement was reached
with France
this territories were returned to Aragon
Roussillon
Cerdanya
Continued to be their main enemy
Monarchs married their childrens
to English princes
to Habsburgs of the Holy Roman Empire
governed
Austria
Burgundy
Military
Catholic Monarchs carried out
a series of military conquests
On the Iberian Peninsula
1492
Boabdil
surrendered the last existing Muslim state
the ruler of the kingdom of Granada
after a ten year war
1512
conquered Navarra
to prevent it from forming an alliance with France
Ferdinand the Catholic
Bbecame part of the Crown of Castilla
Outside the Iberian Peninsula
Northern Africa
various enclaves and Berber pirates
operated from were conquered
Melilla
Bugia
Oran
1497-1510
Ceuta was conquered
by the kingdom of Portugal
Italy
defeated the French at the battles
of Cerignola
of Garigliano
1503
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
secured
Naples
Sicily
Sardinia
The Atlantic Ocean
1478-1496
Islands would serve as a stop
Canary Islands were conquered
for Christopher Columbus' first voyage
to the Americas in (1492)
