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1.4 FOREIGN POLICY
Diplomatic
the monarchs formed
political agreements
alliances
by marrying their children
to the kings
princes of other European kingdoms
Union with Portugal.
The monarchs married their oldest daughter
Isabella of Aragón
to King Manuel I of Portugal
Their son
Miguel
inherit the three kingdoms
both mother and son died
One of the monarchs' other daughters'
María
married to the widowed king
Isolation of France.
1493
agreement was reached
France
territories of Roussillon and Cerdanya
returned to Aragón
despite this
France
continued to be their main enemy.
continue isolating
France
monarchs married their children to English princes
France's enemy
Habsburgs of the Holy Roman Empire
governed Austria and Burgundy.
Military
Catholic Monarchs
carried out
series of military conquests
On the Iberian Peninsula
1512
Ferdinand the Catholic'
conquered Navarra
prevent it from
forming an alliance with France
became
part of the Crown of Castilla
1492
after a ten year war
Boabdil
surrendered
last existing Muslim state on the Peninsula
ruler of the kingdom of Granada
Outside the Iberian Peninsula
Italy
forces of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba the Great Captain
defeated
French
battles of Cerignola and Garigliano
1503
secured the Aragónese territories of
Sicily
Sardinia
Naples
The Atlantic Ocean.
Canary Islands
conquered
following the subjugation of their inhabitants
Guanches
1478-1496
These islands
serve as a
stop off point
Christopher Columbus'
first voyage to the Americas in
1492
Northern Africa.
Between 1497 and 1510
various enclaves which
Berber pirates
operated from were conquered
oran
bugia
melilla
ceuta
conquered by the kingdom of Portugal
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
Diplomatic and military strategies
used to achieve these
