1492 in Spain

Reading in the news that Marine hostage Wassef Ali Hassoun is safe because he promised not to rejoin the U.S. military, I started thinking about Spanish history. "Do you know what happened in 1492 that was important, besides Columbus' landing on Hispaniola?" I asked my husband. "Ferdinand and Isabella kicked all the Jews and Moslems out of Spain."

But before that happened, they were given an opportunity to convert to Christianity. Those who did were called 'conversos'.

The flip side of this phenomenon may be beginning.