How did non-Christians fare during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary; in brief: not well. Ferdinand and Isabella consolidated their rule under the banner of Christ; their common enemies became the Muslims and the Jews. In 1482, Ferdinand and Isabella went to war with Granada, the last Muslim kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula, with an expanded and revitalized urban-based military. A decade later, Granada fell, completing the centuries-long Christian Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula. The fall of Granada coincided with a new official policy of religious intolerance. In the spring of 1492, the monarchy decreed that Jews were to convert to Christianity or leave their kingdoms. A century earlier, anti-Jewish riots had provoked mass conversions to Christianity. But these New Christians, or Conversos, were often accused of secretly holding to their old Jewish ways. In response, Ferdinand and Isabella created the Spanish Inquisition, a church court authorized to interrogate Conversos. Over the next dozen years, hundreds of them failed to prove their sincerity and were burned alive as heretics. Jews and Muslims were formally expelled in the following decades..
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