weird i’ve never seen this article but the conquistador phenomenon is very interesting because authors like Heinsohn propose that it was a youth bulge and a rapid increase in the younger population of spain during the time following the Popes prohibition on birth control that led to a segment of the population known as the second sons because the first sons took much of the inheritance leaving little to nothing.
Also im not entirely sure on the conquistadors being of muslim lineage because the castilians were very rigorous when it came to forbidding andalusians from settling in the new world and “polluting” it with their “non christian blood”.
I actually read some inquisition records on possible andalusians in New Spain and the only few i could find was that of a fisherman who when lost a game of cards called upon Muhammad for some reason. The other is of a woman called Ruiz who had heard her brothers Diego and Miguel Hernández exclaim, “Look at who these Christian animals worship--pieces of wood. "Ruiz recalled that her brother Diego said "that when the Kingdom of Granada rose up and the Moriscos went to the sierra [to fight] he and others smashed the images they found into pieces.”
Besides these i could find little on andalusians in the new world but there’s a ton on Conversos strangely enough (not surprising considering their mercantile skills) and i do recall christopher columbus bringing with him a converso who could speak arabic bc he thought the indians would have some muslims until he realised this was an entirely new continent. Still, i really recommend you to read Heinsohn’s works, i never realized how important age demographics were to history .
Conquistadors weren't of recent muslim lineage like "Moriscos" but the Spanish elite viewed the masses as being of distant Muslim ancestry and without their special Gothic ancestry
Some people think Columbus himself was a Converso. I would like not to believe that, but I'm pretty sure they're doing a DNA study on Columbus's remains so we might just find out. The truth is that there isn't that strong of evidence he was ethnically Italian. Many have suspected he is actually a Spaniard whose family simply lived in Italy like the Borgias. There are also stranger theories that he was a Byzantine Greek or even a Scotsman
That does make sense honestly a lot of spaniards believe that all their ancestors were settlers from castile or smth when that’s probably only partially true, since most andalusians had to convert to christianity and andalusia was the more populous part after all.
also as for colombus, i’ve seen ones saying he was norwegian lol.
Romecels... are we back??? Romulus mandated visigoth gf...
weird i’ve never seen this article but the conquistador phenomenon is very interesting because authors like Heinsohn propose that it was a youth bulge and a rapid increase in the younger population of spain during the time following the Popes prohibition on birth control that led to a segment of the population known as the second sons because the first sons took much of the inheritance leaving little to nothing.
Also im not entirely sure on the conquistadors being of muslim lineage because the castilians were very rigorous when it came to forbidding andalusians from settling in the new world and “polluting” it with their “non christian blood”.
I actually read some inquisition records on possible andalusians in New Spain and the only few i could find was that of a fisherman who when lost a game of cards called upon Muhammad for some reason. The other is of a woman called Ruiz who had heard her brothers Diego and Miguel Hernández exclaim, “Look at who these Christian animals worship--pieces of wood. "Ruiz recalled that her brother Diego said "that when the Kingdom of Granada rose up and the Moriscos went to the sierra [to fight] he and others smashed the images they found into pieces.”
Besides these i could find little on andalusians in the new world but there’s a ton on Conversos strangely enough (not surprising considering their mercantile skills) and i do recall christopher columbus bringing with him a converso who could speak arabic bc he thought the indians would have some muslims until he realised this was an entirely new continent. Still, i really recommend you to read Heinsohn’s works, i never realized how important age demographics were to history .
Conquistadors weren't of recent muslim lineage like "Moriscos" but the Spanish elite viewed the masses as being of distant Muslim ancestry and without their special Gothic ancestry
Some people think Columbus himself was a Converso. I would like not to believe that, but I'm pretty sure they're doing a DNA study on Columbus's remains so we might just find out. The truth is that there isn't that strong of evidence he was ethnically Italian. Many have suspected he is actually a Spaniard whose family simply lived in Italy like the Borgias. There are also stranger theories that he was a Byzantine Greek or even a Scotsman
That does make sense honestly a lot of spaniards believe that all their ancestors were settlers from castile or smth when that’s probably only partially true, since most andalusians had to convert to christianity and andalusia was the more populous part after all.
also as for colombus, i’ve seen ones saying he was norwegian lol.