Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Reconquista and Spanish Inquisition
- Reconquista
- It was when Christian
kingdoms were pushing out
Muslim kingdoms of Spain
- Ended in 1492 when
Grenada, the last Muslim
kingdom in Spain, fell
- Goal was to
reconquer the land
and drive out
Muslim influence
- Results
- Inquisition
- a court of Catholic Christian Priests set up in
Spain by Queen and King Ferdinand to fight
against heresy (ideas going against the
Catholic Church)
- make sure everyone
was truly a Catholic
Christian by any means
- used torture, scare tactics,
focused especially on newly
converted Jews and Muslims
- Expulsion or conversion of
Spanish Muslims and Jews
- Reunified
Spain
- occured due to weakening Muslim rule
- King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
- Unified Spain
- Set up the Inquisition
- Sent Columbus on
his voyage to India,
but he found the
Americas
- Alahambra Decree
- was an edict that allowed the
expulsion of Jewish people and it
established the Inquisition