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Article: Forgotten voyages of 1492. (Spain changed the Old World by expelling Jews and Moors)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- February 17, 1992
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All Don Isaac Abrabanel could do for his people was I secure them a two-day stay of execution. The Edict of I Expulsion issued by Ferdinand and Isabella ordered the Jews to quit Spain by the last day of July 1492. Abrabanel had been a faithful courtier of his "Most Catholic Sovereigns." He had organized the chaotic finances of Castile and Aragon; he had been helpful in the final push against the Muslims of Granada. The work of the Reconquista completed, Don Isaac faced the supreme challenge of his life.
Trouble at court in Don Isaac's birthplace, Portugal, had brought him to Spain in 1484. The Holy Office of the Inquisition was busy grinding down its victims at ...
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