Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says
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#2Interestingly Columbus set sail on the day the Jews were expelled from Spain.
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#3Columbus was famously a devout catholic; his DNA suggests that he was of Sephardic Jewish descent, most likely from a family that underwent a forced conversion.
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#5The Spanish inquisition began in the 1470s so it makes sense he would hide his ethnicity.
What's really interesting however, is how the same year Columbus sailed the ocean blue, 1492, was when the Ottoman Empire accepted 60,000 Jewish refugees from Spain.
Columbus must not have been very religious. It would've probably been a much smarter decision, in terms of self preservation, to move to the Ottoman Empire.
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#6Interestingly Columbus set sail on the day the Jews were expelled from Spain.
The same year, sure. But the same day?
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#7Interestingly Columbus set sail on the day the Jews were expelled from Spain.
India must've sounded nicer than the Ottoman Empire
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#8Interestingly Columbus set sail on the day the Jews were expelled from Spain.
The same year, sure. But the same day?
I'd find it hard to believe all the cities in Spain decided to expel the Jewish people all on the same day. The inquisition began decades earlier so there probably were indications something bad was going to happen
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same year, sure. But the same day?
I'd find it hard to believe all the cities in Spain decided to expel the Jewish people all on the same day. The inquisition began decades earlier so there probably were indications something bad was going to happen
They're probably referring to the Alhambra Decree [0], which did expel all Jews by a set date. That date was the end of July, and Columbus sailed on 3 August, so it's very close but not quite the same date.
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#10The Spanish inquisition began in the 1470s so it makes sense he would hide his ethnicity. What's really interesting however, is how the same year Columbus sailed the ocean blue, 1492, was when the Ottoman Empire accepted 60,000 Jewish refugees from Spain. Columbus must not have been very religious. It would've probably been a much smarter decision, in terms of self preservation, to move to the Ottoman Empire.
> Columbus must not have been very religious.
He was incredibly religious. In his Catholicism.
If anything this is just proof that reading too deeply, and especially solely, into anyone’s DNA history is a mistake. Plenty of people have a background unrelated to their lives or the way they perceive themselves.