«In 1492 Jews, heretics and savages met in one single place: the city of Granada, conquered by King Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. The royal couple, after having fathered the Holy Inquisition, took two other important historic decision: the banishment of all non-baptised Jews and the support to Columbus’ expedition toward the Indies, the latter of which eventually lead to the Spanish colonial rule over the various populations discovered overseas. Because of those decisions, the new opening era and the whole world, globalised for the first time, was dominated by three human types, three cultural constructions over which tyranny would have unleashed its violence backed by the legitimation of political and religious powers. Three big historical processes – colonialism, religious intolerance among Christians and anti-Semitism - were ignited in that moment and will dominate the history of Europe and of the world».