Enforced resettlement had established a precedent that Spaniards connected to population replacement

Evidence

Reinoso argued that these were nevertheless all disadvantages that could be dealt with. To fill the gap created by the loss of “the 19 or 20,000 Morisco households in this kingdom,” settlers [presumably Christian immigrants?] could be brought in from La Mancha, etc. (although he warned they would have to be better treated than those Galicians who had been taken to Granada after the Second Granadan War). — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1377