Religious uniformity policy predated the revolt, making the revolt a pretext

Evidence

Clearly if the Spanish royal family induced the Portuguese to adopt a policy of religious uniformity for Portugal in 1497, then the argument that the enforced conversions of 1500–1502 in Castilian lands came only as a result of the armed revolts in Granada of 1499–1500 and would not otherwise have taken place, is not very convincing. The suspicion must therefore arise that arguments about the revolts having voided the terms of surrender of Granada were mere pretexts. A skeptic might even harbor suspicions that the 1500 revolt in Granada may have been to some extent intentionally provoked (Cisneros and his men were indeed provocative, as we will see). — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 140

Categorization

• XREF: Pretext-driven centralization echoes the debatable-cause pattern in the Spanish Armada book, where victory narratives masked deeper forces.
• QUESTION: To what degree is Cisneros’s provocation documented as deliberate rather than incidental?