Western Civilization I / Unit 14 WC1 1306 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Spain United: Isabella, Ferdinand, Granada, 1492
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The idea
Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon married in fourteen sixty-nine by convention, the anchor's fourteen seventy-nine being Ferdinand's accession, and their grandson Charles inherited both crowns. Granada fell in fourteen ninety-two; castles were razed and the army became Europe's most feared by fifteen hundred.
In practice
Isabella the bolder ruler, sponsor of Columbus.
Where people slip
The kingdoms stayed separate in their lifetimes.
Your place on the trail
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- 1307The Expulsions of 1492 and 1502
- 1312Charles V: The Inheritance Too Big to Govern
- 1319Classifying a New Monarchy's Tool: Army, Tax, Official, Court, Church
- 1321Spain, England, France Compared as New Monarchies
- 1322Why States Got Stronger: Guns, Money, Officials, and the Church's Wealth
- 1506Columbus, 1492: The Miscalculation That Found a Hemisphere
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