The age of the great discoveries of the planet dawned. With the willing or unwilling funding of the rich conversos. The Portuguese marked the first successes. They made landfall on the west coastline of Africa and came near the sea route passage to India. Its markets were coming too near for the kings of Spain to remain too far.
The world was getting larger, beyond the Macarones Islands and Serica. It would be impartially divided between the two superpowers of the time down the line of the meridian – and that belongs to Ptolemy - , which at times would shift under papal authority to avert conflicts among fellow believers. In the New World the Jews had no place. The day that Columbus’ caravelas were setting sail for the West in search for the ports of India, the galleys of the tears were b
