Queen Isabel And Her Spain

Queen Isabel's story is told through contemporary paintings, carvings, and the castles, monasteries, and battlefields where it was enacted. When she came to power in 1474, she inherited a kingdom torn by factionalism and on the verge of civil war. By 1492, she had united her country, defeated Portugal and Moorish Granada, expelled the Jews, and sent Christopher Columbus on his famous voyage., Tells the story of Queen Isabel's rule in Spain with the aid of contemporary paintings, carvings, and the castles, monasteries, and battlefields where it was enacted. Dramatizes Isabel's struggle to hold control of Spain against Portuguese insurgents unhappy with her rise to the throne. Suggests that the greatest year of her reign was 1492 when she and her husband Ferdinand forced Moslem and Jewish partisans to either convert to Christianity, or leave the country. Highlights her attempts in that same year to extend the Christian influence to the New World by sponsoring Christopher Columbus on his westward venture.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.