CATHOLIC MONARCHS
FERDINAND AND ISABELLA
- increasing their power:
- expanding their kingdoms
CATHOLIC KINGS
- Kings: Isabel I, Fernando II, Manuel el afortunado, Felipe, Enrique VIII, Isabel, Carlos I, Maria tudor
Sons: Isabel, Juan, Juana, María, Catalina
Crownless heirs: Alfonso, Margarita, Arturo y Miguel
HOW DID THEY ACHIEVE RELIGIOUS UNITY?
- 1478 - They got the Pope's permission to found The Tribunal
of the Inquisition to persecute heretics.
- 1512 - A similar decree was applied to Spanish Muslims
TERRITORIAL EXPANSION
- castile
DOMESTIC POLICIES
- the holy brotherhood
- royal council
- corregidores
Subtopic
- professional army
THE CATHOLIC MONARCHS
- Fleanor of aragon
- Henry III of castile
- John II of castile
- Isabella of portugal
- Henry IV of castile
- Joan of portugal
- Joanna
- Isabella I
- Alfonso
- John I of castile,
- Ferdinand I of aragon
- Alfonso V of aragon
- John II of aragon
- Mary of aragon
- Blanche of navarre
- Ferdinand II
AUTHORITANIAN MONARCHIES
- they created a diplomatic system
- they created a bureaucracy
-increased the taxes to finance
- they built up an army
- unifying the territory
