Strengths and weaknesses of Aragon

?
  • Created by: Lxcy-16
  • Created on: 25-09-17 21:33

Strengths and weaknesses of Aragon

Advantages

  • Farming and trade were the biggest industries
  • Jews and Muslims were more likely to hold prominent positions
  • Valencia was in resurgence
  • 4 political houses

Disadvantages

  • Monarchs were rarely seen
  • Small population (1 million)
  • Monarchs could not make laws without the consent from the Cortes
  • Couldn't be religiously united as there were 4 religions; Christians, Jews, Moriscos and Moors
  • Weak nobility and dominant knights
  • Barcelona was in decline

Evaluation

Aragon was a weak state and was using the marriage between Ferdinand and Isabella to gain them more stability and an ally that geographically was the largest in the Iberian Peninsula at the time.

Comments

No comments have yet been made