The Making of Spain: From the Romans to the Catholic Monarchs
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Emma & Me is pressing pause for now as Emma takes some time for herself. We appreciate your kindness and respect for her privacy during this season, and we’re hopeful we’ll be back together soon. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the new series - Rebecca & Friends.
Spain was not born in 1492.
In this episode, Dr. Emma takes us back to the very beginning - to the Greeks who first traded along Iberia’s shores, the Romans who transformed it into Hispania, and the Visigoths who ruled after Rome’s fall. We explore how once-unified territories fractured into separate kingdoms, how centuries of conflict and coexistence shaped identity, and how the long Reconquista slowly redrew the map of Iberia.
From ancient colony to emerging monarchy, this is the story of how Spain was made — and how Ferdinand and Isabel inherited a world centuries in the making.
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Hosts:
Rebecca Larson
Dr. Emma Cahill Marron
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Dr. Emma and me on the Tudor's Dynasty and Beyond podcast. |
| 0:06.9 | And now, here are your hosts. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello and welcome back to the show. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm your host, Rebecca Larson, and today is Thursday. |
| 0:16.4 | How are you, Rebecca? |
| 0:17.9 | I didn't even get to say to you know what that means. |
| 0:20.7 | You're excited. |
| 0:22.6 | Yes, it's always great to see you. |
| 0:24.9 | I know. |
| 0:25.6 | You know how much I love Thursdays. |
| 0:28.2 | It's our opportunity to catch up and talk about history, isn't it? |
| 0:32.5 | It is indeed, and it's also Thursday. |
| 0:36.5 | Evil twin coffee. I was just going to say, who's joining me today? Is it Dr. Emma or her evil twin? |
| 0:43.8 | I was just a joke. You guys know, it's always Dr. Emma. It's just, I was just kidding. It's not real. |
| 0:50.1 | Just kidding. I know. I told, I said, I said I totally forgot to grab something to drink today. |
| 0:55.6 | So how is it thirsty Thursday if I don't have anything to drink? |
| 0:59.0 | Because you'll be thirsty by the end of it. |
| 1:02.7 | You have the rest of the day to enjoy it. |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.1 | That's right. |
| 1:07.3 | You don't have my favorite mountain dew? |
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