Strengths and Weaknesses of Castile

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  • Created by: Lxcy16
  • Created on: 20-11-17 12:40

Strengths and Weaknesses of Castile

Advantages

  • Large population (5 million)
  • Castilian Cortes had 3 houses and only
  • Big wool business
  • Public saw lots of their royal family which increased support
  • Unified State
  • Single Coinage and Language
  • Strong monarchy
  • Strong economy

Disadvantages

  • Monarchs decisions had to go through the cortes
  • Weak cortes
  • Clashes with Portugal, France and Aragon
  • Struggles in the North

Evaluation

There were greater advantages to Castile, showing that it was a strong and powerful kingdom and that it could be used to unify all of Spain

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