they held vast amounts of property to the detriment of Christians. The Spanish Crown’s ultimate goal was the total Christianization of Spain by the excision of such cancerous tumors as Jews and Muslims, and so, after the fall of Granada and the anti-Jewish expulsion efforts, many Muslims were expelled as well, mostly to North Africa, and the violence against them would continue until their final expulsion in 1614. But in the immediate aftermath of 1492, Jews bore the brunt of the fanatical vision of a pure Spanish Catholic state.
