But in Spain, barring a temporary financial panic, things went much the same after 1588 as before it.

The full bloom of Spanish culture, gorgeous with Velasquez and fragrant with Cervantes and Calderon, followed hard upon the defeat of the Armada.
[Sidenote: War with the Moors] The fact is that Spain suffered much more from internal disorders than from foreign levy.

The chief occasion of her troubles was the presence among her people of a large body of Moors, hated both for their race and for their religion.

With the capitulation of Granada, the enjoyment of Mohammedanism was guaranteed to the Moors, but this tolerance only lasted for six years, when a decree went out that all must be baptized or must emigrate from Andalusia.

In Aragon, however, always independent of Castile, they continued to enjoy religious freedom.