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What were the five key points in foreign policy? |
1. Prevent French expansion in Italy - gained Naples - Italian wars 2. Improve the armies - Technological development, tactics, logistics 3.Seek lasting peace with Portugal - Marriages of Spanish princesses with Portuguese crown - 1479 Treaty of Alcaçovas 4. Protect the frontier with France - Navarre required - Cerdagne and Roussillon recovered 5. Wage war against Islam - 14 82–92 Granada war - help given to knights and Hospitallers in Rhodes - conquests in North Africa
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Aims for the foreign policy of Aragon (3) |
1. Concerned with the French ambition on its northern frontier 2.Protect Sicily and Sardenia its possessions in the Mediterranean particularly against the Turks 3. Northern border Meditterranean – risk of attack
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And for the foreign policy of Castile (3) |
1. Friendly towards France 2. Main concern in Granada 500,000 Moors there 3. Concerned relationship with Portugal on its southern frontier 4. Gibraltar – risk of attack from North Africa |
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Aims for foreign policy in Portugal (6) |
1. 1479 – gave up its claims of the Canary Islands in the Treaty of Alcaçovas 2. Late 1490s – major islands had been conquered and made part of the crown of Castile 3. Islands in the Atlantic proved to be a good stopping point for ships for the new world 4. Isabella the daughter of F + I married Prince Alfonso at the King of Portugal 5. 1498 – Isabella’s death in childbirth Emanuel married her sister Maria 6. Peaceful marriages mean that Ferdinand and Isabella didn’t have to worry about them and could look elsewhere |
