Life during the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain

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What it meant for ordinary people

The Alhambra Decree of March 1492 ordered all Jews in Castile and Aragon to convert or leave within four months. Tens of thousands left for Portugal, North Africa, Italy and the Ottoman Empire; many others converted and were later watched by the Inquisition. Portugal forced conversions in 1497, and Muslims in Spain faced the same choice in the following decades.

Deaths: about 100,000 to 200,000 left Spain; many others converted; some died on the way.

How hard it hits each person in the game (risk of death, of being conscripted, of leaving) comes from scholarly estimates.

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