the voyage to the new world

The Voyage to the New World


First of all, King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of
Castille got married in 1464. The main reason that they got married was
to unite their kingdoms into Spain. The king and queen were Roman
Catholic, so they gave power to certain people to convert non-Catholics to
Catholicism. In 1482, the Roman Catholic monarchs renew the reconquista,
the military crusade ordered to conquer the remaining Muslim state in
Iberia, Granada. In 1492, the Roman Catholic monarchs ordered all
non-converted Jews expelled from Spain.
In April, 1492, Spain received reports that the Portuguese
succeeded in reaching the Indian Ocean, therefore Spanish monarchs
authorized Christopher Columbus to sail to Asia and establish trade and
start to convert natives to Christianity. The reasons that the monarchs
let Columbus sail were mainly to search for spices and profits, spread
Christianity, and to use some of their new technology like the caravel. ...