Alhambra Decree
Responding to the rebellion of 1501, the Crown of Castile rescinded the Alhambra Decree treaty, and mandated that Granada's Muslims convert or emigrate. Under the 1492 Alhambra Decree, Spain's Jewish population, unlike the Muslims, had already been forced to convert (the so-called "conversos") under threat of expulsion or even execution. Many of the elite Muslim class subsequently emigrated to North Africa. The majority of the Granada's "mudéjares" converted (becoming the so-called "moriscos" or Moorish) so that they could stay. Both populations of converts were subject to persecution, execution, or exile, and each had cells that practiced their original religion in secrecy (the so-called "marranos" in the case of the "conversos" accused of the charge of crypto-Judaism).