The repopulation that took place after the expulsion of the Moors posed many problems that were difficult to solve. The situation of this marginalised population before the expulsion was that of an overpopulation on which enormous taxes were levied. In such a way that, in order to pay them, they were forced to do strenuous work that still did not allow them to improve their standard of living, entering into a dynamic of proletarianisation as Fernand Braudel put it. The saying attributed to this population that said they lived as Christians, but paid as Moors, was therefore true. The truth is that, in order to survive, the Moors had to cultivate different types of cereals and rice was one of them. Their expulsion was not met with the same volume of population. But to this we had to add that with the Moors had disappeared the great experience in different types of cultivation that the repopulators did not know. Crops such as rice, apart from having a bad reputation due to the diseases it caused (malaria), demanded an effort that the repopulators were not prepared to make.

Collection: Texts

Chronology: XVII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Link: http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/4617

Resource type: Historical source

Source: AHN: Consejos. 22.243/4, fí° 73 v°-74 r°

Language: Spanish

Owner: Djebril Bouzidi (Modernalia)

Identifier: AHN: Consejos. 22.243/4, fí° 73 v°-74 r°

Abstract: Fragment of text in which the problem of dealing with crops such as rice due to the lack of knowledge of resettlers is raised

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