DOMESTIC POLICY OF FELIPE III

DOMESTIC POLICY

During the first 2 years of reign, the country was ravaged by a plague that probably wiped out the 15-percent increase of population during the 16th century.

To camuflage all the treatys of the wars, Felipe III expelled the Moriscos from the peninsula. Aproximately 250,000 of Moriscos were expelled out of the Peninsula, most of them went to North Africa. Due to this Spain suffered an economic crisis.