HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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to expel (kick out) all Muslim spies from the country
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to reveal (to tell) and stop all church corruption and waste
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persecuted (harassesd) its people to believe in the Catholic ideas.
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to find and burn down places affected by the Plague (Black Death)
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Detailed explanation-1: -Its ostensible purpose was to combat heresy in Spain, but, in practice, it resulted in consolidating power in the monarchy of the newly unified Spanish kingdom. Its brutal methods led to widespread death and suffering. The Roman Catholic Church had established inquisitions in the past.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy, conducting trials of suspected heretics.
Detailed explanation-3: -There were usually not many cases of this kind, because the chief aim of the inquisitors was to reconcile heretics to the church. On rare occasions, however, large public executions did take place, as at Verona in 1278, when some 200 Cathars were burned.
Detailed explanation-4: -It had to confiscate property and impose fines to pay for its expenses. Its mission was to persecute heresy, but it had strong incentives to look for it in richer places. Its early focus on persecuting Jews and later Protestants led it to target populations with higher levels of education.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Spanish Inquisition was started by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain because they only wanted Christians in their kingdom, so they had priests go out to find non-Christians to convert or punish them; Jews, Muslims and Protestants were the objects of the Spanish Inquisition.