Michael Fitzgerald’s Reviews > 1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half > Status Update
Michael Fitzgerald
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I was surprised to learn how much internecine strife, scandal, calumny, and even warfare with Christians killing Christians concerning who was going to rule most of the land, but they were united in their shared hatred of "the barbarians" i.e. the Muslims, whose last stronghold was Granada. Also amazing to read that Isabella and Ferdinand were basically teenagers when this was going on.
— Feb 20, 2016 01:47AM
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Michael Fitzgerald
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So, as it turns out, by the 1520s, the New World discovery, especially for Spain, was about bringing galleons loaded with gold and silver back to Spain to finance its wars. This story gets sadder and sadder.
— Apr 15, 2016 08:18AM
Michael Fitzgerald
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So, as it turns out, by the 1520s, the New World discovery, especially for Spain, was about bringing galleons loaded with gold and silver back to Spain to finance its wars. This story gets sadder and sadder.
— Apr 05, 2016 08:44AM
Michael Fitzgerald
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Now the story of the Spanish exploration of the New World begins, a tragic tale of greed and the destruction of the Mayan Civilization.
— Mar 31, 2016 03:24PM
Michael Fitzgerald
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Now we get to the crux of the matter: it was Rodrigo Borgia, a Spaniard who bought his way into the papacy, took the name Alexander VI, and then issued the Papal Bull dividing the world north-south so Portugal "got" Africa and Brazil and Spain got America. The bull included the note that it was "pleasing to God that Barbarian nations be conquered and converted to the Roman church.
— Mar 28, 2016 12:20PM
