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Christopher Columbus enlisting the sympathetic interest of Isabella of Castile on behalf of his scheme for discovering the New World.
This enlightened sovereign was the inaugurator of the Golden Age of Spain, and under her rule and that of her husband, Ferdinand,
Art, Science, Agriculture, and Commerce alike flourished. She was known as the "Good Queen"
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