2. Isabella was named heir to the throne of Castile by her half
brother Henry IV of Castile in the Treaty of bulls of
Guisando
Ferdinand became the King of Aragon in 1479
. Though their marriage, united the two kingdoms, leading
to the beginnings of modern Spain,.They ruled
independently and their kingdoms retained their own
regional laws and governments for the next few centuries.
3.
4. • The Kings had a goal of completing
the Christian reconquest of the Iberian
Peninsula and to conquer the Muslim
kingdom of Granada. After 10 years of many
battles the Granada War ended in 1492 when
the Emir Boabdil surrendered the keys of the
Alhambra Palace in Granada to the Castilian
soldiers
5.
6. Ferdinand & Isabella ordered the expulsion from Spain of all
Moors and Jews. Conversion to Catholicism was a way of
avoiding expulsion, but between 1480 and 1492 hundreds
of those who had converted were accused of secretly
practising their original religion and
arrested, imprisoned, interrogated under torture, and in
many cases burned to death, in both Castile and Aragon The
Inquisition was established in the Kingdom of Castile
7.
8. • They authorized the expedition of Cristopher
Colombus which brought knowledge of
the Americas to Europe. This lead to an influx
of wealth into Spain, filling the coffers of the
new state that would prove to be the
hegemony of Europe only until 1588.
• Isabella died in 1504. Ferdinand
remarried Germaine of Foix; he died in 1516.
