The world: historical and actual . mportant additions of area were made, and it requiredonly a matrimonial alliance with Portugal toprepare the way for the complete unification of thePeninsula under one throne. Ferdinand and Isa-bella made the necessary j)ro-vision for such a consummationby the marriage of their daugh-ter with the heir of Portugal,and their son with a daughterof the King of Portugal. Butin both cases death preventedthe success of the plan, andinstead of uniting all Iberia,the country became two king-doms as now, Spain and Portu-gal. In the fall of Granada, Castileand Aragon ha
The world: historical and actual . mportant additions of area were made, and it requiredonly a matrimonial alliance with Portugal toprepare the way for the complete unification of thePeninsula under one throne. Ferdinand and Isa-bella made the necessary j)ro-vision for such a consummationby the marriage of their daugh-ter with the heir of Portugal,and their son with a daughterof the King of Portugal. Butin both cases death preventedthe success of the plan, andinstead of uniting all Iberia,the country became two king-doms as now, Spain and Portu-gal. In the fall of Granada, Castileand Aragon had no assistanceof moment, but all Europe wasdelighted. Christendom feltthat the overthrow of the Saracens in Spain wasan offset for failure in the Crusades, and forencroachments upon the Greek Church on theBosphorus and along the Danube. Only onething marred the satisfaction of the pious, andthat was that the treaty of Granada guaranteedto the Moors the free enjoyment of their that arrangement many thousands of Mos-. (3°°) FERDINAND AND ISABELLA. 30I lems remained in the land, worshiping God accord-ing to the Koran. But the perfidy of ecclesiasticalcounselors was equal to the emergency. A synodof bishops and other dignitaries of the church de-cided to solicit the conversion of the Mohamme-dans by ordering those who did not embrace theChristian religion to leave the country, taking withthem neither gold nor silver. Confiscation and ban-ishment, practically, were the penalty of fidelity toIslam. And this policy was rigorously carried great many accepted Christianity, receiving bap-tism and abstaining from every form of Moslemworship. To recant in any waywas sure death. Those who werethus converted became known asMoriscoes. The more liberal andeducated class cared little fortheir religion. Those who clungto the old faith of Mecca wereobliged to cross the Mediter-ranean. Some of them settledalong the northern border ofAfrica, but many pushed boldlysouthward a
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