WI the Alhambra decree was revoked?

In 31st March 1492 King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castille issued the Alhambra decree less than three months after the surrender of Granada. In it, Jews were accused of trying "to subvert their holy Catholic faith and trying to draw faithful Christians away from their beliefs."
Some Jews were even only given four months and ordered to leave the kingdom or convert to Christianity. Jews were supposedly granted royal "hostility and sub-mutation" for the effective three-month window before the deadline. They were supposedly permitted to take their belongings with them - except "gold or silver or minted money".
The supposed punishment for any Jew who did not leave or convert by the deadline was death. The punishment for a non-Jew who sheltered or hid Jews was the confiscation of all belongings and hereditary privileges.
Don Isaac Abravanel, who had previously ransomed 480 Jewish converts of Malaga from the Catholic monarchs by a payment of 20,000 doubloons, now offered them 600,000 ducats for the revocation of the edict. It is said also that Ferdinand hesitated, but was prevented from accepting the offer by Torquemada, the grand inquisitor, who dashed into the royal presence and, throwing a crucifix down before the king and queen, asked whether, like Judas, they would betray their Lord for money.
WI the joint monarchs of Spain had accepted Abravanel's offer and revoked the Alhambra decree? How is this altering History? Any thoughts?
 

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I think that maintaining a Jewish (or Muslim, for that matter) presence in Spain until the modern day is more or less impossible. A rancid, militaristic, exterminatory Catholicism was at the heart of Spain's self image from 1400 to 1650, it was incapable of co-existing with other religions within its borders.

Had the Catholic Monarchs taken the bribe, they would have gone back on their word sooner or later, or a later King would have.

The only possibility I can see is them accpting the bribe, then Spain suffering some calamitous defeat (a failed invasion of Morocco, losing the best part of the nobility, for example) before they could go back on their word. A disaster like that, around 1500, before the benefits of the new world were really apparent, might trigger a cultural shift that allowed for a more plural Spain.

Or more likely, it would provide a fresh excuse to chuck out the Jews and Muslims.
 
I think that maintaining a Jewish (or Muslim, for that matter) presence in Spain until the modern day is more or less impossible. A rancid, militaristic, exterminatory Catholicism was at the heart of Spain's self image from 1400 to 1650, it was incapable of co-existing with other religions within its borders.

I do not agree with that. It was not a rancid, militaristic, exterminatory. They saw the ottomans and the moorish lands in the north of Africa as a direct threat. You may say that an invassion was not possible and I agree, but you must not forget that the towns in the spanish coast were either strongly fortified (the big ones) or far away from the coastline (the smaller ones), there were constant raids to capture slaves that were sold in the north of Africa. Philip II even considered the possibility of abandoning Ibiza due to the cost of defending it from the north african pirates!

Why did other collectives and nations stuck to their religious beliefs and hated the different? It was something similar to the greek mistrust of latin christians.

Moreover it was not exterminatory. Cruel maybe, but they did not exterminate them for their beliefs (just think about the hundreds of thousands killed in reformed Europe for witchcraft, Saint Barthelemew killings, the swedish campaigns in Bohemia...
 

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Why did other collectives and nations stuck to their religious beliefs and hated the different? It was something similar to the greek mistrust of latin christians.

Moreover it was not exterminatory. Cruel maybe, but they did not exterminate them for their beliefs (just think about the hundreds of thousands killed in reformed Europe for witchcraft, Saint Barthelemew killings, the swedish campaigns in Bohemia...

I agree that there was a level of religious intolerance in Europe generally which created massive destruction...but Spain was a special case.

In 1450 Castille and Aragon were multicultural societies, with 3 faiths co-existing, not as peacefully as in the Ottoman empire, but co-existing nonetheless.

In 1700 Spain was mon-cultural, having forceably expelled all its religious minorities. I know of no other country which had no minorities at this time, even France a few protestants and Jews clung on through the worst of the counter-reformation.
 
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