The history of the Jews henceforth in Spain is that of the conversos, whose numbers, as has been shown, had been increased by no less than 50,000 during the period of expulsion to a total of maybe 300,000.
Conversos played an important leadership role in the Revolt of the Comuneros (1520-1522), a popular revolt and Civil War centered in the region of Castile against the imperial pretensions of the Spanish monarchy [REF].