Isabella and Ferdinand had only unified Spain and driven out the last of the Muslim invaders 25 years earlier. Spain had undergone about 700 years of nearly unending warfare.
And apparently Spain hasn’t learned much, since muslims are happily spreading their terror there again and no one is doing anything serious about it-smartest thing my ancestors did was watch the Spanish shoreline fade into the distance-it had to be bad there-an unknown wilderness full of Spanish soldiers running wild, and hostile natives was preferable to what was going on in Spain...
The Spanish have been a bloodthirsty, vengeful bunch at least since the Romans occupied the place-probably learned that from them...
The Spanish government still doesn’t like Basques-they always want to be left alone, never like anything the government does and still rebel at the drop of a hat, apparently-in my family we voted Trump and we are known to be unrepentant rebels-must be genetic...
A guy I went to college with was a Basque separatist from Spain-when he heard about a separatist uprising/fighting going on in the Basque area of Spain, he told us he was going over there to join the uprising, got on a plane and left-he was absolutely giddy about the thought of revolution and battle-never heard from him again...