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Why Did the Reconquista Provide a Toolkit but Not a Blueprint for Conquest? - The Iberian Frontier Toolkit and the Making of the American Empire | Sleepy Facts About History
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When Granada fell in 1492, the Spanish Catholic Monarchs inherited a set of legal and military tools refined over centuries of frontier warfare. But what happened when those medieval instruments crossed the Atlantic? This episode explores how practices like the fuero, the repartimiento, and the encomienda were carried to the Americas by Spanish and Portuguese actors who knew no other way to organize territorial expansion.
The narrative traces the Iberian toolkit from the contested…
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