1-Christopher Columbus was sent on his voyage by a government that had just thrown off the last vestiges of seven centuries of foreign rule. Of course, that government's response to retaking their own land also included expelling the country's Jews. History doesn't divide neatly.
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Well, people can see themselves however they want, but objectively the notion that the Spaniards saw themselves as oppressed is absurd, particularly since the Moors had been confined to a tiny sliver of the Iberian peninsula since the mid-13th century.
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