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"Columbus and Queen Isabella”
By dawn the next morning, Bruno's uncle Reyes had already set off for the harbor with his two chariots of corn and wheat with his two aides. After crossing the mountains and reaching the center of Granada along the village road, they would reach the southernmost port of Almeria, after crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains between them and the sea. Travelling for two days, Reyes' small convoy finally reached the Port of Almeria in the middle of the third day, around noon.
There were many Muslim-Arab merchants, Jews and a small number of Christians in the coastal settlements. In addition, Mediterranean merchant ships bringing goods from far overseas and from India used the Silk Road from the Far East to Europe to create a kind of trade, science, culture and
