The year 1492 is one of the most important in Spanish history. While Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic, Jews were forced to flee east, ending over a thousand years of Jewish presence on the Iberian Peninsula. That same year, the Catholic Monarchs completed the reconquest by defeating the Muslim-controlled Kingdom of Granada. These seemingly separate events were driven by a single unified goal: transforming Spain into a fully Christian nation. In this episode, we examine the fourt...
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The year 1492 is one of the most important in Spanish history. While Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic, Jews were forced to flee east, ending over a thousand years of Jewish presence on the Iberian Peninsula. That same year, the Catholic Monarchs completed the reconquest by defeating the Muslim-controlled Kingdom of Granada. These seemingly separate events were driven by a single unified goal: transforming Spain into a fully Christian nation. In this episode, we examine the fourt...
64: Unseating Earth: Rheticus, Copernicus, and "On the Revolutions"
I Take History With My Coffee
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64: Unseating Earth: Rheticus, Copernicus, and "On the Revolutions"
Send Me A Text Message In the spring of 1539, a brilliant 25-year-old mathematician named Georg Joachim Rheticus did something that could have cost him his life: he crossed into Catholic territory where his Lutheran faith was banned, carrying precious books and a determination to meet the man he believed held the key to understanding the cosmos. That man was Nicolaus Copernicus, a 66-year-old Catholic canon who had spent decades secretly developing a revolutionary theory that would chan...
I Take History With My Coffee
The year 1492 is one of the most important in Spanish history. While Columbus sailed west across the Atlantic, Jews were forced to flee east, ending over a thousand years of Jewish presence on the Iberian Peninsula. That same year, the Catholic Monarchs completed the reconquest by defeating the Muslim-controlled Kingdom of Granada. These seemingly separate events were driven by a single unified goal: transforming Spain into a fully Christian nation. In this episode, we examine the fourt...
