HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Question
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____ they were intolerant towards other religions
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____ they liked only Muslim people
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____ they were tolerant only with Christians and Jewish
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____ they wanted a police to control Christian people
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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: -After Aragon and Castile were united by the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella (1469), the Marranos were denounced as a danger to the existence of Christian Spain. In 1478 Pope Sixtus IV issued a bull authorizing the Catholic Monarchs to name inquisitors who would address the issue.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 by Ferdinand and Isabella to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and was under the direct control of the Spanish monarchy. It was not definitively abolished until 1834, during the reign of Isabel II.
Detailed explanation-4: -Spain developed three different literary traditions during the Middle Ages. The presence in the Iberian Peninsula of three different established religions–Christianity, Islam and Judaism–gave rise to three distinctive intellectual communities and practices.
Detailed explanation-5: -Why did Ferdinand and Isabella establish the Spanish Inquisition? To purify Spain by getting rid of everyone who didn’t believe like them. Which groups were targeted for persecution by the Inquisition? Jews, Muslims, non-Roman Catholic Christians, and people who were trying to bring reform to the Church.