PostReconquista
Post-Reconquista refers to the period after the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula, marked by the fall of Granada to the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. It coincided with the consolidation of the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon into more centralized monarchies and the expansion of royal authority across Castile, Aragon, and the newly unified realm. The era saw efforts to enforce religious uniformity, including the 1492 expulsion or forced conversion of Jewish communities (the Alhambra Decree) and increasingly coercive treatment of Muslim populations, culminating in the later expulsion or conversion of Moriscos in the 17th century.
Administratively, post-Reconquista featured the strengthening of royal bureaucracies, the establishment of the Holy Office of the
Overseas expansion defined the policy of the period. Columbus's voyage in 1492 opened the Americas to extensive