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He was famously bankrolled by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.
by dvt 3y ago
He was famously bankrolled by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.
- gregjor 3y agoQueen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon, who married and then defeated the Emirate of Granada in 1492, the year Columbus sailed to the New World. Spain as a nation didn't exist until then.
- unmole 3y agoSpain as a nation state did not exist then.
- gregjor 3y agoIt existed as a unified kingdom from 1492. A kingdom occupied the same place in international relations and national identity back then that modern nation-states occupy today.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoJust want to nitpick everyone. Spain, less Navarre and Portugal, would have existed as a state at that time, but probably not yet a nation, as I presume the people still saw themselves as Aragonese, etcetera, and not yet Spanish. They even spoke different dialects at the time.
- dvt 3y agoJust to nitpick your nitpick, much of Spain still speaks different dialects (if not different languages entirely). So speaking Catalan is a different thing than speaking Galician, which is very different than the Basque language. There's also Andalusian and the Canarian dialect, among others I probably don't know about.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoAwesome! It's still probably not a nation then. Thanks for the updated info!