Crown of Castile

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the year of definitive union?1230. Ferdinand III united the kingdoms of Castile and León
2. What is the scientific name?N/A (Political Entity)
3. Why did the Crown of Castile help find America?The kings Ferdinand and Isabella paid Christopher Columbus to sail across the ocean, and in 1492 he reached the Americas, which became part of the Crown of Castile.
4. How did the Crown of Castile become a world empire?In the 1500s it conquered huge places like the Aztec and Inca empires, and it also ruled over lands in South America, the Philippines, and many other places.

Reconquista: A centuries-long period of Christian kingdoms retaking territory from Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula.
Personal Union: A situation where two or more kingdoms share the same monarch but retain their separate laws and institutions.
Nueva Planta Decrees: A series of laws that abolished the separate institutions of the Crown of Aragon, unifying it with Castile.