feb 1, 1492 - Christopher Columbus encounters the "New World"
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Diaspora Jews who had settled in the Iberian peninsula (Spain & Portugal), and whose culture had flourished under Islamic civilization, are threatened by the unification of Spain by Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille. Jews were given the choice to convert, exile, or death. Sephardic Jews among those who sail with Columbus.
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