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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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