While reading the book “God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World”, I found a sense that while the book had very interesting and questioning connections with a variety of passed inquisitions and where or how there are similarities to our modern time. Which is explained greatly by Murphy, functioning as a guide to the readers, offering a tour of the Inquisition’s nearly 700-year-old. I also found that Murphy did a great job in defining and explaining in detail the various gruesome instruments and acts of torture through history and showing similarities and same techniques used today. My the one problem I had was I found it an overall amusing to read, but personally until the first 3-4 chapters the book is quite difficult to digest and connect with, but as the inquisitions began to be more modern era I could relate and see the points and connections that were being made. I found that Murphy’s focus was to demonstrate how the mind-set and some machinery of the Inquisitions are unpreventable products of the modern world that later surfaced in Stalin’s Russia,
They wanted to convert the native peoples to Christianity.¨ (World Civilizations 799) So multiple people took the opportunity to try to change their religion. Christopher Columbus was a main enforcer of this. Osu.edu says, “Columbus forced the natives to convert to christianity and begin practicing this new religion against their desires.” (Myles Hudson) Christopher Columbus was not the best guy.
This faithfulness to his king directly correlates to his and the other Spanish settlers’ goal to help strengthen their mother country economically and government with their rivalry with the other European countries. The leaders of Spain, along with Britain and France, were all a part of a global power struggle. By the late 1700s, the different European leaders all heard about the steady flow of money and treasures which were coming from North America. These powers soon entered into a struggle to impose their supremacy on colonies and trade routes. So, many people had the same mindset as Fernando de Rivera y Moncada where he wanted to rebuild the Catholic Spanish Population which was greatly decreased after English Protestants began to colonize North
United States in the 1540’s in search of gold and other treasures. As the conquistadores traveled they came in contact with a few different Native American groups. They tried hard to convert these new people to Roman Catholicism, which was the Spanish religion. In the 1680’s the
This ordered and Jews and Muslims to convert to Christianity. They tortured the heretics that did not convert to catholic finally all Jews and Muslims who refused to convert were banned from Spain. The Jews and Muslims could practice their own religion but it had to be secretly done. Isabella sponsored the voyage of Christopher Columbus which brought money to Spain and a new world. When Columbus discovered the new land they were given to Castile because of Isabella’s sponsorship.
The Aztec and Spanish The outcome of the contact between the Aztec and the Spanish was welcoming initially but after a certain period of time, The Spanish decided to take over the Aztec and Inca Empire. The purpose of this Spanish expedition was to seek fame and fortune for Spain and also spread Christianity to the natives and new lands. This had led them into war between the Aztec and Spanish The Aztec first arrives in Mexico in the late 1100s.
However, surrounded by unfriendly Christian nations, Granada was constantly at risk. The final push for the conquest of Granada occurred in 1469, when King Ferdinand of Aragon of Queen Isabella of Castile married. This united the two most powerful Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. Granada stood no chance against the newly unified Christian army. Muslim leaders and governors were commonly at odds and many of them were even secretly working with the Christian kingdoms in exchange for wealth, land, and power.
They felt that converting them would make them smarter and more aware of their purpose. The European views on religion were very ethnocentric. They felt that Christianity was the only real religion and it was their job to travel around the world to make others aware of their
When Columbus came to the Americas in search of land for his king, he also came to claim land for God” (Spreading Religion in the Age of Exploration). The Europeans spread Christianity, and it became very popular among the colonies of the New World. “Roman Catholicism was the official religion of Spain, so the Spanish conquistadors sought to spread Catholicism throughout their colonies, in addition to accumulating wealth and power” (Spreading Religion in the Age of Exploration). The Spanish missionaries worked very hard throughout the Americas and attempted to evangelize Native American groups.
My impression of the interactions of Christians, Jews and Muslims in Medieval Spain is that they are peaceful relationship, because they were managed to
Since 1492, Spain recognized Christianity as its official religion because there was no distinction between Catholicism and Protestantism. Most of the Spanish population practiced Christianity due to Jews being banished and Muslims being converted. In 1517, the Protestant Reformation divided the Christian religion half - into Catholicism and Protestantism. Spain supported the Catholic religion, and they saw the New World as an opportunity to convert others to Catholicism. They believed that religion gave them the right to conquer new land, because they “came to serve God and to get rich, as all men wish to do,” which Bernal Diaz del Castillo said while working with Hernán Cortés in the conquest of Mexico.
The Spanish empire wanted to come and expand their religion and get money as well of their purpose towards the reason why they migrated to the New World. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, who was one of the Spanish conquistadors, on the reason of Spanish motivations towards the New World stated that, “We came to serve God and to get rich, as all men wish to
1. The strength and weakness of the Aztecs played a role in why their empire was on top during their time before the Spaniards to over. The Aztecs were centralized in military and were stronger than the other neighbors around them. That’s why they had their empire on top because they were better fighters than their enemies. They required tribute payments, forced labor, and large scale of human sacrifices towards the enemies around them.
From then until 1834, the Spanish Inquisition conducted more than 100,000 trials that featured of Jews, Muslims, Lutherans and other assorted “heretics". In 1483, Thomas de Torquemada became the inquisition-general for most of Spain; he set tribunals in many cities. He was responsible for creating the rules of inquisitional policy and creating branches of the Inquisition in various cities. The influence of Thomas was essential for the Catholic Monarchs approve the expulsion of the Jews from Spain.
Spanish claims to Latin America were based on the Christianizing mission. When Christopher Columbus arrived at the ‘New World’ in 1492 he quickly and forcibly took advantage of the wealth of the Indian tribes; those who refused to hand over their gold and jewels faced brutal punishment of all sorts. In return, Columbus and other Spaniards bestowed the Indians with Catholicism by baptizing them and teaching them the rituals of the religion. Hence, the colonization of Latin America was justified under the guise of spreading Christianity.
