A century of disarmament left Moriscos unpracticed and untrained in arms.

Evidence

In the handling of arms they were like raw recruits, in part because for years arms had been forbidden to them, and as Ovid says, lack of practice deprives one of skill, but in part because they were cowards and effeminate. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1903

Categorization

• XREF: The pragmatic first clause (disarmament caused lack of skill) sits against the hostile second clause (cowardice); connects to the essay ‘On Sacrifice’ and impost-modesty pieces about how alien observers project moral character onto material constraints.