CLEP Western Civ I

Category - Early Modern Europe

At the end of the Christian Reconquista, the majority of Spain was united when monarchs from which kingdoms wed?
  1. Austria and Granada
  2. Granada and Portugal
  3. Austria and Castile
  4. Portugal and Aragon
  5. Aragon and Castile
Explanation
Answer: E - In 1474, as the Christian Reconquista to reclaim lands from the Moors and Jews was nearing its conclusion, the marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile unified most of Spain. Together they completed the Reconquista in Spain by winning control of Granada and the Canary Islands, then they banished all of the Muslims and Jews from the Spanish kingdom under the Alhambra Decree of 1492. That same year, Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored the first of four voyages undertaken by Christopher Columbus, who, in a bid to find a westward route to the Indies, became the first European since the Vikings to find the Americas.
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