The New Year, a Melancholy Celebration

The half millennium marked a time of enormous change for christians. The catholic monarchs of spain had recently conquered the last moslem kingdom in europe. New lands had been discovered on the other side of the atlantic ocean, and european settlement of the caribbean had begun. But the ancient holy city of jerusalem had also fallen to a new rising power, the ottoman empire.

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