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Apr 2019
48m 49s

The Spanish Inquisition, the Expulsion o...

Wondery / Patrick Wyman
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Queen Isabella of Castile was one of the great state-building monarchs of the later Middle Ages, but state-building had a dark side: the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, and the beginnings of a decades-long war that would consume western Europe for three generations.

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