Hello and welcome to the show. This is part two of our coverage of Isabella of Castile.

And when we left Isabella in part one, she had just set the Spanish Inquisition spinning.

A quick recap for those of you who don't feel like going back right now to episode one.

A princess was expected to live a life as a political pawn, not as a ruler, but she changed the

game with some power moves, including choosing her own husband and forcefully claiming the crown.

She began her rule strong with a really bright future. She consolidated government,

she instituted the police, she got nobility under control, then came some dark times.

Using her chief weaponry of fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency and fanatical devotion,

she and her husband Ferdinand began the Spanish Inquisition. Slowly at first it was the Jews who

they thought weren't converting properly to Christianity and then the Muslim and then anyone not

deemed Christian enough were find, exiled or executed for the next 300 years. It's about 1482.

Isabella is 31, she has three children, she's pregnant with twins and it's time to settle down.

Ha ha ha no.

Well our old friend and neighbor to the south, Oli of Grenada, has decided that two years of peace

was enough. Kind of inspired by his hero, man, at the conqueror. Oli of Grenada attacked a city that

was actually within Castile's boundary, his neighbor to the north and it was able to

flood bath. Residents were slaughtered, survivors were taken away to Grenada as slaves, and Mr. Oli

then used his first city as a base from which to start attacking other cities in Castile.

It was time to act as far as Ferdinand and Isabella were concerned, their quest was clear.

It was their goal and destiny to reclaim Grenada from the Muslim invaders who'd seized it in the

700's. They feel perfectly justified in taking it back. My question is how long is between taking

it back and just taking it? I don't know. I don't know. I mean they were they were invaded and so that

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