GK
WORLD HISTORY
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the spread of Protestant ideas
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trials of those opposed to Catholic doctrine
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Spanish wealth from the American colonies
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the effects of the Renaissance in Europe
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Inquisition was a powerful office set up within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy throughout Europe and the Americas. Beginning in the 12th century and continuing for hundreds of years, the Inquisition is infamous for the severity of its tortures and its persecution of Jews and Muslims.
Detailed explanation-2: -The papal Inquisition-founded in 1542 and formally known as the Congregation of the Holy Roman and Universal Inquisition, or Holy Office-was reorganized by Pope Paul VI and renamed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1965.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Roman Catholic Church had established inquisitions in the past. Taking their name from the Latin verb inquiro (“inquire into”), these commissions had authority to question supposed heretics about their religious practices and loyalties starting in the 13th century.