• @ChonkyOwlbear
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    255 months ago

    At the time Christians were forbidden from charging interest, so Jews ended up being the only ones who could lend money. These laws likely were only enforced against Jews. There ended up being a lot of economic jealousy towards them that eventually led to their expulsion from the country in 1492.

  • metaStatic
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    75 months ago

    I’m just gonna say if that was the end point I’d have already sold off all my property to avoid it.