| | After 9 years of warfare, Granada finally fell to the Spanish in January 1492. Ferdinand and Isabella set up their royal house in the [[Alhambra]], by joining the palace of Comares (the official throne of the Sultans of Granada) with their own Palace of the Lions. This ended several centuries of Islamic rule in southern and western Spain. Their finances bolstered by the conquest, the King and Queen no longer needed the financial support of the Jewish businesses in Spain, and on 31 March they issued the ''[[Alhambra Decree]]'', ordering the expulsion of all Jews from Spain and its territories and possessions by July 31, 1492, unless they converted to [[Roman Catholicism]]. About 400,000 left before the allotted date, losing their livelihoods and being forced to pay exorbitant taxes as they departed. (This Jewish money helped fund Columbus's voyage to America, which departed on 3 August, 1492.) Around 50,000 Jews chose to convert and remain in Spain. | | After 9 years of warfare, Granada finally fell to the Spanish in January 1492. Ferdinand and Isabella set up their royal house in the [[Alhambra]], by joining the palace of Comares (the official throne of the Sultans of Granada) with their own Palace of the Lions. This ended several centuries of Islamic rule in southern and western Spain. Their finances bolstered by the conquest, the King and Queen no longer needed the financial support of the Jewish businesses in Spain, and on 31 March they issued the ''[[Alhambra Decree]]'', ordering the expulsion of all Jews from Spain and its territories and possessions by July 31, 1492, unless they converted to [[Roman Catholicism]]. About 400,000 left before the allotted date, losing their livelihoods and being forced to pay exorbitant taxes as they departed. (This Jewish money helped fund Columbus's voyage to America, which departed on 3 August, 1492.) Around 50,000 Jews chose to convert and remain in Spain. |
| − | In 1492 the new world was discovered and after the founding of the United States of America in the late 18th century, it was thought that a new age of peace, coexistance and freedom could begin. However, by the turn of the millenium it became aparent that the country had been taken over by a bunch of morons who put the fate of their entire country in the hands of Mr. Bush. Well done guys, its not as if amercia had screwed up the world enough already by its other various unsuccessful foreign exploits in previous years and its suppression of world culture through its capitalist greed. No, now it decided to police the world as well causing unnecessary slaughter because 'God' told bush to invade Iraq. I'm sorry, but where the hell is the justification for that?? there is none!! the american conservatives are the biggest hypocrites the world has ever known!! (thou shalt not kill - one of the ten commandments - and NO, there are no 'buts' in the COMMANDment so if you are a true christian who loves and cares for all mankind then you would oppose any war wouldn't you? no because you are corrupt as the arabs you are invading and slaughtering are not the 'right' people to be saved and cared for. The 'God' american conservatives beleive in is a very 'white' god isn't he? this is because he stands for conservatism and an unequal society where, in the land of the 'free' would support suppression of the thought of human beings:
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| − | 'we will not teach evolution in our schools' etc.............are you even aware that this practically proven fact?? give it up you facists, you can't go on trying to defend creationism with science becasue there is none, your arguments are ALL flawed and i would know as i have extensively studied them - you are inventing evidence - where is the proof that the world was created in 6 days?? whereas THERE IS PROOF that the universe was started by the 'big bang' I, myself, used to be a christian and i followed blindly with faith but then i actually started allowing myself to think outside the box, instead of suppressing my thoughts when i went to america last year and saw how right wing the church in this country was. i dont not deny the possibility of the existance of a god but this website brought to my attention the pure propaganda that is this website. You are suppressing the minds and spirits of people everywhere so please, for the sake of humanity, stop it! if you just think, you will see that you do not have to interpret everything you do through the teachings of the bible. The whole world is laughing at you america and i know that there are many intelligent people out there in that country of yours so please take it back from the iron grip of facism before there comes to be an 'American Iquisition' which, by enforcing their religion in society, has had its foundations laid already.
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