The 1492 Columbus book that changed my whole timeline take

I used to think the Spanish Inquisition's collapse was the main reason Spain fell behind in colonizing, but a professor at a 2019 con showed me how the 1492 expulsion of Jews and Muslims actually wiped out their best navigators and financiers. That single policy, not the Atlantic focus, throttled their early empire growth compared to Portugal's. Anyone else reexamine a big event after reading one niche primary source from that era?

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