>jews are an extremely powerful financial & industrial minority>in 1238, for example, jews paid 22% of taxes in castile despite being 3-4% of the population>kick the jews outwhat would have happened to the spanish economy in the 1500s if they hadn't found the Americas?
>>18653006Womp womp
>>18653006bump
>>18653006What's your source on this?
>>18653558OP made several mistakes, that number is from 1294 in Aragon and comes from Yitzhak Baer's "A History of the Jews in Christian Spain".
>>18653006they used Genoese to replace them, so not that much
>>18653006>in 1238, for example, jews paid 22% of taxes in castile despite being 3-4% of the populationtax farmers aren't 'paying' taxes, they forward them. in exactly that century many cities petitioned the king to fire jewish tax farmers, even agreeing to pay excess tax just not to have the jewish middleman on their backs. (many of the 'expulsions' touted on /pol/ are of this nature, firings of tax collectors).
>>18653006They were fifth columnists. The money was not worth the stability of the realm.
they didn't kick all the jews, only those who didn't convert to christianity
>>18653830This. jews are cancer on legs.
>>186530061238 to 1500 was a long time, Jewish Prosperity had taken a turn for the worst when the Trastamaras won the Castilian Civil War as the new dynasty imposed a more oppressive regime on them, replacing many functions they previously had with the favored nobles, Genoese and the French.
