What was the impact of the Spanish Inquisition on the Medieval World?
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it had been reduced the progress in Europe;
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Tomás de Torquemada - The man that was in charge of the Spanish Inquisition.  He was a Catholic priest.\n\nHenry VIII - Made his own religion when Rome wouldn't give him a divorce.\n\nFred Phelps - Claims to be a man of God and spews hatred everywhere.\n\nPaul Hill - Claimed to be a true and devout Christians then went on a killing spree at a womens clinic.\n\nJim Jones - Claimed to be a man of God then ordered his followers to commit suicide.\n\nMoses David Berg - Claimed to be a prophet of God but used his power to molest children and advocate sexual abuse of children.\n\nFather Porter - Sexually abused hundreds of children.\n\nBernard Law -  Played a shell game with pedophile priests and allowed them to get away with it.\n\nJoseph Smith - Claimed to be a prophet but faked everything he wrote.\n\n\nGo to the following site, they have tons there.\n\nBenny Hinn - Televangilist.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era
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Hi captain, I have got some thing for you which goes down to early history.\n\n" Charles only spared the lives of those Saracens[Muslims] who consented to be baptised, the rest he put to the sword."--[History of Charles the Great and Orlando, by Turpin, Vol-I, ch-ii, pg-5]\n\n"....460 years later, when the Holy land reverted to the Christian rule of crusading knight of Europe, the oriental Christians regretted the tolerating Govt. of the Arabian Khalifs."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\n"....A bloody sacrifies was offered by mistaken votaries to the God of the Christian resistance might provoke, but neither sage nor sex could mollify, thier implacable rage, they indulged themselves 3 days in a promisenous massacre. After 70,000 muslims had been put to the sword and the harmless JEWS had been burned in thier Synogogue, they could still reserve a multitude of captives whom interest or lassitude persauded them to spare."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\nThe critical Gibbon coclusively proves that, "...to his Christian subjects, Mohammad readily granted security of thier persons, the freedom of thier trade, the property of thier goods and the toleration of thier worship. This profitable principle of toleration was observed with more or less strictness, not only by all the immediate successors of the Prophet, but over the whole period of Arabic ascendency."--[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON] \n\nOn the other hand..........\n\n"....when Jerusalem capitulated to Khalif Omer, the inhabitants of the vanquished city were left in possesion of thier worldly goods, and allowed the freedom of worship. A special quarter of the city was allotted for the residence of Christian population with thier Patriarch and his clergy."--\n[Rise and Fall of Roman Empire- GIBBON]\n\n"....And Islam was tolerant not simply to the Jews but also to the Christians. The Christian church in muslim Spain was given large lands and considerable revenues, christian envoys were recieved with courtesy and allowed to take away relics of christian saints and martyrs from the muslim territory. GIBBON says in his Decline and Fall [of Roman Empire], that muslim rulers even transcribed an Arabic version of the canons of the councils of Spain for the use of BISHOPS in the Moorish kingdom. Haroon al-Rashid, the hero of the "Arabian Nights", planted in his kingdom a large number of schools, the head of these schools, his Director of Education, was a chritian named John."--[ The Spirit and Struggle of Islam by Prof. T.L.Vaswani, Ganesh & Co., Madras-1921]\n\nYou can judge it yourself as to whether muslims inflicted more violence or the Christians ? \n\nAnd you know about modern history and who is responsible for killing lacs of people in Hiroshoma and Nagasaki, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan..
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Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther.\n\nMagellan was killed in the Phillipines.\n\nRead more about this year on WikiPedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1521
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the plague killed about 1/3 of the population of europe.\nConsider that in our society.  What would it do?
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His noble heart\nThe influences of the priestes from the University of Salamanca where he was studying for his law degree. The Dominicans were against the social injustices against the Indians.\nThe fact that he witnessed the massacre of Native People in Cuba\nThe lack of support from the King of Spain towards more humanitarian approach to the New World's natives
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The inquisition, was ruthless in it's hunt for those who dared to defy catholism (not sure of that spellin) But what they are most famous for is their ability to question/ torture an innocent person into incrimminating themselves. Their victims were known to simply confess to the crimes they were accused in an attempt to make the questioning end. The inquisition were masters at intimidation and the twisting of words and events...that is where the saying originated from (i do believe)
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hello Penny. try these links, they should help.\n\nWEBSITES ON THE MIDDLE AGES/MEDIEVAL LIFE\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Middle_Ages.htm\n\nhttp://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/mahome.htm\n\nhttp://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/contents.html\n\nA P European History Topics and Web Links Page.\n\nhttp://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/EHAPTOpics_WebLinksPage.htm\n\nClick on the blue star ( ) to get the detailed assignment sheet and a list of topics to be covered for each unit of study.  Click on the gold star ( ) to go to a page filled with extensive web links to sites and many primary source documents for that unit of study.\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Given the following:\n\nA) Non-Catholics were not only seen as heretics, but because church and state were so intertwined, they were also traitors, and\n\nB) People tend to be as harsh and hostile as their environment, and\n\nC) the lack of any real technology made theirs a harsh environment with high mortality rates, and\n\nD) being basically ignorant of any realistic concept of how the universe works, and\n\nE) fearing that divine displeasure would result in the destruction of the realm,\n\nit therefore followed that anyone who rocked the boat was a definite threat to the "natural" order of life.\n\nSo, one removes the threat. It's a matter of survival.\n\nLook at it from THEIR viewpoint. Given what I said, they were actually being rather kind. They gave those accused a chance to recant and save their souls at least. By their lights that was Christian.\n\nDo not judge the past by the mores of the present.\n\nWere it to happen today we would be incensed. I know this because the Muslim fundamentalists are busy doing the same thing, with one exception. They kill you without a trial. And look how we responded to the news that a perfectly nice young man was to be killed for becoming a Christian. We're NOT medievals anymore. Muslim fundamentalists may be, but we're not. We've grown up beyond being scared of the dark.\n\nBTW, it wasn't, strictly speaking, merely Catholic involvement. It was Catholic inspired and Crown ordered. The Inquisition was carried out by members of the clergy, but always under orders from the king.
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Does it HAVE a historical impact??? It's an illness, just like any other. You could say, measles and its historical impact on society, or asthma and its historical impact on society. What is the question?\nI think a more pertinent question might be MG and its impact on the sufferer? - but I guess that would be boring for non-sufferers!!
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Hard to tell, seeing as how much time has passed. I bet Latin America wouldn't be Catholic, since Spain would probably have been taken over as well. \n\nProbably no Protestant Reformation, either. The world would be quite different.
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Well, the BIGGEST loss for the nobility was the loss of their heads...\n\nhur!hur!
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Nice use of Rome as an example. Only that you left out the part where the Romans treated the Goths and Visigoths as a source of cheap but more often as slave labor. \n\nSounds very familiar.
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Modern historians have long known that the popular view of the Inquisition is a myth. The Inquisition was actually an attempt by the Catholic Church to stop unjust executions. \n\nHeresy was a capital offense against the state. Rulers of the state, whose authority was believed to come from God, had no patience for heretics. Neither did common people, who saw heretics as dangerous outsiders who would bring down divine wrath. \nWhen someone was accused of heresy in the early Middle Ages, they were brought to the local lord for judgment, just as if they had stolen a pig. It was not to discern whether the accused was really a heretic. The lord needed some basic theological training, very few did. The sad result is that uncounted thousands across Europe were executed by secular authorities without fair trials or a competent judge of the crime. \n\nThe Catholic Church's response to this problem was the Inquisition, an attempt to provide fair trials for accused heretics using laws of evidence and presided over by knowledgeable judges. \n\nFrom the perspective of secular authorities, heretics were traitors to God and the king and therefore deserved death. From the perspective of the Church, however, heretics were lost sheep who had strayed from the flock. As shepherds, the pope and bishops had a duty to bring them back into the fold, just as the Good Shepherd had commanded them. So, while medieval secular leaders were trying to safeguard their kingdoms, the Church was trying to save souls. The Inquisition provided a means for heretics to escape death and return to the community.\n\nMost people tried for heresy by the Inquisition were either acquitted or had their sentences suspended. Those found guilty of grave error were allowed to confess their sin, do penance, and be restored to the Body of Christ. The underlying assumption of the Inquisition was that, like lost sheep, heretics had simply strayed.\n\nIf, however, an inquisitor determined that a particular sheep had purposely left the flock, there was nothing more that could be done. Unrepentant or obstinate heretics were excommunicated and given over to secular authorities. Despite popular myth, the Inquisition did not burn heretics. It was the secular authorities that held heresy to be a capital offense, not the Church. The simple fact is that the medieval Inquisition saved uncounted thousands of innocent (and even not-so-innocent) people who would otherwise have been roasted by secular lords or mob rule.\n\nWhere did this myth come from? After 1530, the Inquisition began to turn its attention to the new heresy of Lutheranism. It was the Protestant Reformation and the rivalries it spawned that would give birth to the myth. Innumerable books and pamphlets poured from the printing presses of Protestant countries at war with Spain accusing the Spanish Inquisition of inhuman depravity and horrible atrocities in the New World. \n\nWith love in Christ.
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yes, i know alot about henvy VIII, like the previous answerer, i suggest you go and get a book and read all about it.\n\njust to get you started a bit...\n\nin henrys time people were often beheaded for minor crimes.\n\nsocial class difference includes things like eating roast swan and whole pigs for an evening meal for the upper classes and for the lower classes there was maybe some bread and whatever seasonal vegetable or game/meat was available.\n\nedward the 6th came after edward the 5th and was he the one who was really sickly?  or was that another one?.....you'll have to find out yourself dude!
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Google the Silk Road - it was one of the most important commerical highway of ancient times.  The crusades, while devastating in certain economic terms (loss of life, property abandoned/neglected while crusaders off, property destroyed by over-zealous crusaders who couldn't wait to get to the Holy Land to start raping an pilaging...), opened up Europe to the Silk Road and gave rise to the prosperity of Venice, Amsterdam, Lisbon, and other medieval trade centers.\n\nNow do some real research.