[Jewbacca]

The effect of the Spanish pogrom against Jews was pretty telling -— within a generation or so, the once-great Spanish kingdom fell to ruins.

Happens when you kick out your good generals, engineers, navigators, and destroy trade and merchants.

I am particularly amused by the fact a self-decribed “Texan” would be pushing a papal state when the first stated purpose of the Texas Revolution was freedom of religion for Protestants and Jews, both for theologic reasons and to be free of the financial corruption and decay that was the Roman Church in Mexico at the time.

[Uri’el-2012]

There was an unintended consequence to the RC Pogroms in Spain.

Christopher Columbus set sail on the very last day Jews were permitted in Spain.

All Jews were to be out of Spain by Tisha B'Av

[Poe White Trash]

The effect of the Spanish pogrom against Jews was pretty telling -— within a generation or so, the once-great Spanish kingdom fell to ruins.

I'm sure that was part of it. Imperial overextension in Europe and the "brain drain" to the New World colonies didn't help, either.