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Bluffer’s Guide
The Spanish Inquisition
SPAIN AND SPANISH-CONTROLLED COLONIES, 1478-1834
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you know?
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Timeline
1184 1478 1481 1492
The Medieval The Spanish The fi rst public The Alhambra Decree
Inquisition, a Inquisition is penance takes is issued. This
precursor to the offi cially established place in Seville. formally expels all
Spanish Inquisition, when Pope Sixtus Six people are Jews from Spain.
begins to punish IV allows the executed by being Several thousands
heretics of the monarchs to name burned alive in the of Jews are forced
Catholic Church. their own inquisitors. town centre. to emigrate.
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