Spanish Inquisition Essay

The Spanish were not alone in the inquisition to Christianize its regions and nations. France, Portugal, England and Italy too had an involvement to various degrees of waring, forcing and expelling in the name of their Christian God and authority figures. The Spanish Inquisition, however is the Inquisition most widely discussed. The Spanish Inquisition’s method of action which dissolved into extreme brutality, gives insight to how governments use and exploit whatever it wants and needs to in order to achieve its intended goal. This essay in sequential order aims to address three movements the Spanish Inquisition took to achieve its plan in sequential order, economics, exploitation and exclusion. This paper’s will argue that the Inquisition

The first source is Thomas F. Glick and his writing Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages, here Glick addresses how the together the various cultures and balance of power before Christian Spain, played a significant role in developing a thriving social interracial exchange. Glick also addresses how the transition to Christianize all of Spain, ushered in a depression that not only effected the economy but also the rich culture that once existed under Muslim

We cannot look at these Latin Christian Spain’s economy, without looking at its exploitation and exclusion of non-Latin Christians, these elements were interlocking, not stand-alone actions carried out by elite Latin-Christians. For example, the elite rulers and crown of Catholic Spain, at large sought to exploit non-Latin Christians and exclude them from what was deemed “acceptable” society. Through an exclusive society favoring Latin Christians, many if not most of the exploitations ended up being more for elitism and economic gains than religious harmony and purity. And, throughout all this, the Spanish Inquisition ended up proving to do more harm than good for the