Ugly History: The Spanish Inquisition - Kayla Wolf

Dig into the era of the Spanish Inquisition, when the Catholic Church was charged with rooting out and punishing heresy.
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In 1478, Pope Sixtus IV issued a decree authorizing the Catholic monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, to root out heresy in the Spanish kingdoms. The inquisition quickly turned its attention to ridding the region of people who were not part of the Catholic Church- leading to more than 350 years of ethnic cleansing. Kayla Wolf digs into the persecution and brutality of the Spanish Inquisition.
Lesson by Kayla Wolf, directed by Luísa M H Copetti, Hype CG.
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[@nicsmith7689]

One issue with the video: Isabella II herself couldn't have ended the Inquisition in 1834, since she was just 4 years old at the time. Maybe her mom, the Queen regent signed off on it.

[@c.galindo9639]

The more you know

[@RandomNulls]

Bruhh Isabella ll: *goes to school the next day* Everyone who knees she disbanded the Inquisition: *confused noises*

[@itsblitz4437]

@Oritra Kar that's common then?

[@omargerardolopez3294]

@@itsblitz4437 Yeah, when the new monarch is too young someone is needed rule, the best option most tomes being a tutor of the monarch

[@MrAutore]

Good point

[@FinancialShinanigan]

Fellow Prisoner: So what are you here for? Me: I did laundry on a Saturday Everyone: This guy is crazy!!

[@rimacalid6557]

Some were killed because they smelled good and/or bathed regularly, or even for having fruits in their diet. kid u not !

[@fadhil5749]

@@rimacalid6557 if she breathes, she's a heretic

[@martinrdh96]

@@rimacalid6557 that is not true. I take you are talking about medieval hygenie myth? Medieval European bathes regularly. It is during early modern period when western european stop regular bath out of fear for syphilis

[@martinrdh96]

@Elivinture peasant bath regularly too. Just not in twice a day as in our culture now. In the morning and night they wipe their face, ear, armpit, and groin with wet cloth. It is in the noon near evening they do full bath, but it varies on climate, season, and access to firewood in colder climate. They lack better education but they still have common sense. So, "peasants did not bath regularly at all" is wrong. Ironicaly bro, you are being even more vague by saying "at all". For me, I just forgot to add western in my first sentence on european. But I did on the second half.

[@James-en1ob]

@Elivinture you do know there are such things as public bath houses during the medieval period ,right? A Chanel called shadeversity has a great video about it

[@_JayRamsey_]

I did not expect the Spanish Inquisition...to have lasted so long. Three and a half centuries!

[@pittarpiratee46]

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION

[@jorgepalacio6910]

And in all of that time they only executed 3000 people. That's a monthly number for way too many countries in today's world, but countries that people don't care because it isn't Europe.

[@claramente8087]

The American inquisition It is still remain in Guantanamo nowadays.... Don't you?

[@darylcheshire1618]

I read that it was mostly dying out over the last 100 years. The ending was just a formality.

[@jorgeo4483]

Less than the Protestant and Anglican Inquisition who killed many, many, many more people.

[@schurgy16]

One part that isn't mentioned is that there was an Inquisition in Portugal too... and it was worse. So worse that when a concerned Portugese man went to the Pope to tell what had been going on, the Pope told Portugal to reign in the inquisition.

[@jameswatt4114]

not true many jews expell from castille by order of Isabel went to portugal

[@estepario....0038]

France and Italy. Even protestants have his own one , killing several times more than spanish. You can check Miguel Servet burn in Switzerland.

[@cml2176]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYqQoYZsnrF5q8Usi=EPYEp5-8JOxGYGMD

[@someonexdxd]

I can only imagine all the "nobody expects the spanish inquisition" jokes there are gonna be.

[@akisa7865]

Oh cool, a BC profile

[@someonexdxd]

@@akisa7865 Yes :D

[@calebmurray4438]

Yooo D’artanyan = best battle cat

[@someonexdxd]

@@calebmurray4438 Obviously :)

[@Sirenhound]

But everyone's expecting it so....

[@catherinehouser3788]

Recently, a group of Catholic Mexican decendents with interesting and unusual religious practices was studied. Turns out that they were descendents of Spanish conversos who were keeping alive some of their Jewish traditions long past the point at which the danger of discovery was over. And long past the time they knew the origins of the practices.

[@itsalice2780]

Actually, my family comes from them. My grandmother knitted hats that looked like kippahs (jewish headwear for men) for my uncles' baptisms, communions, and confirmations. We played with dreidels at christmas time and lit 12 candles (instead of 8 for hannukah). We are from mexico.

[@alettom2738]

I believe this is also the reason as to why flour tortillas are common in the north of Mexico…. Apparently Jewish conversos came to the north of the country (for instance, the state of Nuevo León) and ate goat kid meat (cabrito) and flour tortillas since they were a bit similar to their Jewish lamb and unleavened bread meals but in a way that would not appear as obvious Jewish food so they could stay out of trouble…. Nowadays they’re very traditional regional foods

[@zaki4117]

That’s pretty cool

[@anthonygutierrez4546]

What’s the name of that group? Landino?

[@sb4040]

@@itsalice2780 How cool is all that! Wow.

[@adrianrg75]

The Spanish Inquisition came after and was much milder than other countries' inquisitions. And people did expect the Spanish Inquisition, they gave a 30 day notice beforehand

[@valdorobles3651]

What a modern and nice people were the Spanish inquisitors

[@kolgax2064]

I have it on good info that nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

[@1lyxbollyvykn714]

@Daniel Leon Zapata you just need to go and check records from that time

[@ajamhuha4198]

@Daniel Leon Zapata agreed. Sugar coating wrongdoings

[@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser]

@@ajamhuha4198 Nope, german witch hunts killed more people in one procedure than the spanish inquisition in its existence.

[@therestivestat5468]

More people have been killed just during the night of Saint Bartholomew than during the whole Spanish Inquisition, which lasted for centuries. Not to mention the torture methods used during that time weren’t especially different than the common medieval punishments.

[@corgismclean]

exactly! Yet nobody talks about French religious intolerance or the Jews being kicked out of England 4 times!

[@rumblefish9]

Absolutely. This reporting is just horrid and filled with propaganda. What most people thought they knew about the inquisition were myths and greatly exaggerated. New studies have shown that torture was rarely used. The iron maiden which people associate with it was never even used.

[@piotrtoborek2442]

@@rumblefish9 Using Umberto Eco's fiction as inspiration will lead to countless misconceptions. It is hard to believe educated people hold such false views but hey, flat-earthers exists as well :D

[@Superbed2]

@@rumblefish9 source?

[@dirk2518]

What a nonsense! Only in 1576 spanish soldiers killed 8000 civilians in Antwerp. Spanish inquisition caused the biggest emigration wave in the southern Netherlands. People fleeing for the terror of spanish inquisition.

[@KomodoMagic]

I wasn’t expecting this

[@anotherordinaryguy4992]

Can't believe I was too late to say that.

[@lilithhyde1592]

Well no one expects the Spanish Inquisition

[@josiahl1086]

Me too

[@vale3242]

nice one

[@JoseLopez-of4qn]

wait for the other european countrie´s inquisition... they were much deadlier than the Spanish one

[@chanbricks4461]

I did not expect the Spanish Inquisition, but I expected the memes

[@James-en1ob]

🤨

[@alejandroojeda1572]

You know...they sent a fricking letter a month before taking you

[@JonasHamill]

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

[@NoraTheCreator117]

666th like

[@Alejojojo6]

Saying Spain did not experience Renaissance or the Separation of powers at min 4:29 is BS... It's not knowing about Spain or it's history and culture AT ALL. Spain was a complete participant of the iRenaissance (Velazquez, el Greco, Becket, Cervantes.... all contributed to it), and the oldest Parlament in the world is in the Kingdom of Leon, a literal separation of powers. But by the Catholic Monarchs onwards Spain, like most European countries, experienced the same separation of powers. Isolation of Spain began after Napoleon not before.

[@doctorasmaakhatab9011]

Spain did not experience the Renaissance Andalusia, which is Spain and Portugal before the Inquisition and before the expulsion of Muslims, was an advanced Islamic country and a center of science, and this is thanks to the Muslims

[@jorgeo4483]

@@doctorasmaakhatab9011 The muslims translated the ancient greeks and romans texts because they where camel sons before that, then Alfonso X the Wise created the School of translators of Toledo. This way Europe was alphabetized for second time from Spain, first from the Spanish legions.

[@harrydean5603]

Iceland has Europe's oldest parliament

[@jorgeo4483]

@@harrydean5603 No. The Cortes of León (Spain) or Decreta of León from year 1188 was a parliamentary body in the medieval Kingdom of León. According to UNESCO it is the first documented example of parliamentarism in history.

[@harrydean5603]

The Icelandic Althing was established in 930AD

[@ash.bl.9289]

It is interesting that only 12,000 people were executed in the 300 years of the Spanish Inquisition. Less than 5% of the accused were sentenced to death. I recommend the History Matter video about the Spanish Inquisition or the BBC documentary "The myth of the Spanish Inquisition". The reality looked much more harmless than mab likes to portray.

[@noname-uy6jh]

Falling for that good old Spanish propaganda lmao

[@ash.bl.9289]

@@noname-uy6jh and you fallend for the Leyenda negra. Has you see the BCC doku about the Spanish Inquisition?

[@goodaimshield1115]

Actually, that number is a significantly higher number than that of the historical sources. Most historians of this particular period who have analysed the Spanish Inquisition thouroughly agree the number to be somewhere between 3.000 and 5.000.

[@Trikipum]

no, it wasnt 12000. It was 3000 in total...

[@corporateturtle6005]

@@Trikipum YT Comment Section Sources: Trust me bro. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Booberi600]

Spanish inquisition : starts* Everybody : Surprised Pikachu face

[@ultimatebishoujo29]

Lol

[@sparagnino]

Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquisition

[@brembyvfx]

woah you got a heart from ted-ed lol

[@alejandroojeda1572]

You know....they sent a fricking letter a month before taking you

[@ultimatebishoujo29]

@@alejandroojeda1572 still not enough time to prepare

[@drummats6933]

When the comment section is just "I didn't expect that": _I'm so proud of this community_

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

Did you mean _isn't just_ ?

[@LuinTathren]

@@user-vn7ce5ig1z No. He didn't. He's referring to all the comments referencing a very well-known and immensely hilarious skit by Monty Python. Drummats is happy that so many comments are mentioning how unexpected this video is. Because "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

[@CatDrinkingPoison]

@@LuinTathren *NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!*

[@h.inusitatus]

Why would you be proud of everyone being so grossly unoriginal and childish?

[@ananyamanvi5360]

NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION

[@randomobserver8168]

I do still find myself amazed at how large the inquisition loomed in the minds of English-language writers like Twain and Poe, as late as the 19th century.

[@enniomojica7812]

Dude this whole video is based on propaganda not history. These lies about the inquisition were created by angry Protestants trying to throw dirt on the Catholic Church. Modern history now shows how the inquisition in Spain actually helped stop the practice of witch burning from reaching Spain and regular people actually preferred the Spanish Inquisition over secular courts because they were more fair.

[@tonyb9735]

@@enniomojica7812 Oh really? And where did it stand on priests buggering children?

[@johnisaacfelipe6357]

@@tonyb9735 You should probably worry more about the grooming gangs buggering your children now.

[@Mondy667]

@@johnisaacfelipe6357 Lmak true, the Priest grooming is very very bad as a catholic but the people are ignoring their children getting groomed by mainstream entertainment industry

[@MrBongobongbongo]

@@enniomojica7812 They issued a death warrant for all of the Protestants in the Netherlands, stop lying.

[@MrAelin]

Fun fact: for everyone who does an actual research, there were very few deaths in the Spanish inquisition compared to Switzerland or Germany

[@eyadfromthesky]

Ted Ed should have a vocabulary word list at the end of every video containing the uncommon vernacular from the video

[@rodrigombl452]

You mean a glossary

[@bismarkreich245]

Read more

[@RandomNulls]

@@bismarkreich245 f*** I just instantly clicked it, damn instincts

[@allanjustinboncay2321]

Yeah i'm from SEA and those english words are unfamiliar to us and this suggestion would help us a lot, people who wanted to expand their vocabulary.

[@T.GLongstaff]

Yeah or like a test like the other renowned online classes from PragerU. You know since Ted Ed and PragerU are basically the same thing with the same standards.

[@James-rv7ie]

Everyone here: "This was unexpected"

[@kianodhaeseleer6846]

Nobody expects the inquisition!

[@tuesdaywithanh]

I was not expecting this

[@jasonfallon4968]

Can we b friends

[@ginreothebdumneos2334]

Is it really or is that sarcasm?(I really can't tell which)

[@kianodhaeseleer6846]

@@ginreothebdumneos2334 Simple, Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[@user-ug8oz2zv8q]

Whenever I lend my printer that was made in Spain to my friends, they are always surprised at the clarity. No one expects the Spanish ink precision.

[@Gloriaimperial1]

:) Printer of ink? Well, we were making cars a century ago, and they worked very well, and now, high-speed cars. And combat planes, cargo, helicopter.... We sell high-speed trains to Saudi Arabia and California. Aircraft carriers to Australia and Thailand. We did the expansion of the Panama Canal. We could even make nuclear weapons. We make satellites. We could send a rocket to the moon, with our engineers. In fact we are the tenth power in scientific research. But the printer thing has been a lot of fun ;)

[@C_CREATURE_]

@@Gloriaimperial1 r/whoosh

[@Gloriaimperial1]

@@C_CREATURE_ adfjañdfkajdsfña

[@modakkagitplugga]

Henry Kamen has a great book on The Spanish Inquisition, dispels a lot of myths

[@duba77777]

fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, nice red uniforms

[@MichelleIbarraMHAEdD]

Yea, what could go wrong? 😐😒

[@mr.bluesky2628]

@ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀᴍᴜᴛᴇ _ Is "biggles" a way to express and say that you are surprised? It doesn't appear on a dictionary. It just appeared to me that 'Biggles' was a surname of a pretty well-known British pilot, whom was brave and courageous, but nothing more than that.

[@QuikArabicLessons]

Jesus: Jews reject him. Christians call him a god. Muslims call him a great Messenger of God & the Christ/Messiah but still a human. We pray 5x a day like him & dress like him, our women wear hijab like his mother Mary did. My love for Jesus led me to Islam: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnLJc5eFnbSlptk

[@connorredding]

Red Guards from starwars?? :)

[@connorredding]

@ᴡɪɴᴛᴇʀᴍᴜᴛᴇ _ No-one expects the Spanisb Inquisition

[@drabberfrog]

I didn't expect Ted Ed to make a video about the Spanish inquisition.

[@Jolfgard]

Nobody did

[@thespanishinquisition2200]

No one expects a video about the Spanish Inquisition

[@marljevincalabia3746]

Ironic

[@bozitrapboy]

why not?

[@LamanKnight]

@@bozitrapboy It's a joke from Monty Python. If you search KZbin for, "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition," you'll probably find what everyone is referencing.

[@pivotalpancake5454]

Christianity went from: "We're being prosecuted, so we don't celebrate publicly" To "We're celebrating publicly and persecuting heretics". Truly one of the biggest table flips in history. (Don't flame me, I'm a Christian too lmao. It's just that the belief isn't violent, It's the people who issue it.)

[@42069TV]

"I'm too weak" "Unlimited Power!"

[@basstt5615]

It's when happens when you get politics involved

[@uberneanderthal]

it was a "table flip" 1000 years in the making. maybe read up on the Caliphate and Reconquista some time.

[@dkbros1592]

Ya that's why church killed genocide millions

[@meekmeads]

Islamic Jihad and Slavery still going strong, mate.

[@a.gallardo4321]

You skip that, by catholic doctrine, natives in the americas were protected by the inquisition and missionaries, and treated far better than any other colonial power. And that the Inquisition varied depending on the reforms they had, including being one of the first to drop confession by torture.

[@cyrus5958]

I’m going to be honest, a torture rate of 1/3rd is lower then most people would probably think with the Spanish Inquisition

[@alejandroojeda1572]

That's because the Spanish inquisition was vehemently against physical torture (they even went as far as to say that confession under torture was not valid...which was pretty revolutionary because until then that was the only way a confession was valid). The rate of torture in medieval Europe was...100%. your lord is gonna have a trial for you? Huh you wish. He's gonna torture you and then kill you. You're a peasant, justice doesn't exist for you...unless the inquisition is the one trying. Thus we get to the next point. People sometimes turned over to the inquisition to avoid harsher measures from their nobles. The most common sentence was a fine. Talking about fines, they even fined people who accused falsely!!!

[@isaiah3872]

Yeah, until recently I thought the punishments were more severe & frequent (particularly burning at the stake). Maybe there's truth to the school of thought that some Protestants exaggerated the statistics of the Spanish Inquisition. Still, I'm not endorsing the Inquisition in general.

[@herodotus945]

@@isaiah3872 Everything you heard about the inquisition is a lie. The Inquisition was the first judicial body in Europe to have established rules of evidence, recognize an insanity plea, ban arbitrary punishments, and dismiss anonymous accusations. It was actually closer to modern jurisprudence than most secular courts of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. They also believed that the accuser held the burden of proof, whereas most secular governments at the time required the accused to prove their own innocence.

[@matheussanthiago9685]

@@herodotus945 any source?

[@dianajiw]

That's unexpected

[@thomazneuber2008]

The Bible says that we shall not kill anyone,. Yet, that was exactly the thing those guys were doing

[@tobilandsfried8083]

They "cleaned" their souls so they've a chance in the eternal afterlife. That was the excuse.

[@Delgen1951]

@@tobilandsfried8083 And Conversion dose not work that way ever, it was all about the money and lands.. And when they met the Lord they were probably shocked to here Him say "Depart form me Ye workers of Sin.".

[@kingsingh2616]

Thats like every religion. They talk about good things and these guys just do the opposite. Religion is a scam.

[@canigetasubforgoodcomment6054]

Which Bible? There are 100's

[@tobilandsfried8083]

@@canigetasubforgoodcomment6054 shut up. Don't play devil's advocate for those monsters.

[@josephturner6440]

Anyone else binge watching these? These videos and After Skool are my favorite to watch.

[@EscutcheonWon]

3,000 people were "executed" in Spain across the entirety of the centuries of the Inquisition. That's it. Of the 3,000 "executed" 1,500 were "executed in effigy." That is, they built up a human-sized doll, and killed the doll, not the person, then expelled them from the country. That's it. That's the horror/terror of the Inquisition.

[@user-hq4zk6eg5n]

A Truly unexpected video

[@calebmurray4438]

An unexpected surprise, but a welcome one

[@Pilusajaib]

Beat me to it lol

[@albenmurcia4716]

No one expects the spanish inquisition

[@ralone8314]

Here here gather around man of culture

[@thechannelthathasfithteens6792]

Badum tsss

[@misterminutes4504]

*I must say, I didn't expect the unexpected comments and memes about the unexpected Spanish Inquisition. This is all unexpected*

[@goatsanimations4480]

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

[@byzantium0086]

They should make video about Islam

[@h.inusitatus]

No, this is all the same boring joke that gets in the way of anyone trying to learn about this topic.

[@samlaw1501]

@@byzantium0086 like Islam in Spain?

[@raf3599_]

ď

[@lu881]

It ended in 1834? That's like... recent

[@joseribeiro5894]

Unexpected. Right?

[@lu881]

@@joseribeiro5894 Lol

[@sardoniceheleno.7452]

Yeah, after moors and jews were expelled it lost its purpose but managed to stay as it was a catholic institution, And it was abolished briefly in 1812 when the first spanish constitution was made during spanish occupation by Napoleon's armies. After that Ferdinand VII took back the throne, and it was indeed on 1834, but it had been abolished earlier from 1820 to 1823 in the liberal triennium. After 1824 the triennium ended and Ferdinand VII tried to inplant absolutism again but failed, and the inquisition wasn't extrictly abolished this time, but rather changed to the tribunal of faith, a ''diet'' and ''offbrand'' alternative version of the Inquisition, being finally abolished 1834, when Maria Cristina of Bourbon , the regent queen, accepted bringing back the 1812 constitution and the abolition was done, this time being a final decission.

[@Juananandelsur]

Spanish Inquisition was the mildest of Europe. Just the French Revolution caused more death penalties that the Spanish Inquisition in all its existence.

[@mintmez1170]

Yes. Thank you 🫡

[@basantprasadsgarden8365]

Catholic trying to cope with Church's Crimes

[@TorrentsNicolas]

No body expected the Spanish Inquisition but everyone expected the Monthy Phyton fandome in the comments section.

[@NWPaul72]

Really all I came for. Religious fundamentalists killing their parishioners and keeping them in a state of fearful subservience isn't really my cuppa tea

[@DD-kc6hg]

Almost every comment in a few hours of the upload: "I did not expect that." Edit: It has been like one minute and I am already seeing this

[@VeraBean]

To be honest. That was my first thought when I saw this video.

[@radoslawgruszka]

At least you can't say you didn't expect that.

[@aeuihatlilordofthevoid7879]

Correction, I made the comment 15 seconds after it was uploaded

[@toxikarp2063]

I don't understand why there are many comments like that

[@DD-kc6hg]

@@toxikarp2063 Monty Python, a comedy group from UK had a show named Monty Python's Flying Circus. It is a joke from one of their episodes.

[@happypepper9326]

The sound effects are wonderful. Thank you.

[@BGomez-tk7lu]

You may not expect the spanish Inquisition, BUT one thing u may not expect either is that this is quite biased. Remember! The Inquisition was NOT exclusive to Spain. The spanish Inquisition wasn't even the harshest Inquisition of them all (you should see what the folks in Germany and England did, there the burning and witch hunting was a lot more common) although it had some particularities, mainly relating to burocratic procedures If I recall properly. Spain had many enemies back then, and they were good with propaganda. That's why most common folk only remember the Spanish Inquisition and not the maleum maleficarum or the work of Matthew Hopkins

[@alessandrodelogu7931]

You're right. Here in Sardinia we had the Inquisition too, but here they killed nobody.

[@alejandroojeda1572]

@@alessandrodelogu7931 and yet we're stuck with these videos denouncing the horrible inquisition. And everyone in the comment just chanting oh yeah, they were horrible. Come on!!!! It's in the video 2000 people in 300 years. The Germans once burnt more people in a day!!! It was a terrible institution based on hatred but dear god it wasn't the worst by far

[@alessandrodelogu7931]

@@alejandroojeda1572 plus their cruelty and power greatly diminished with time. In the XVIII century their only business was censoring books.

[@alejandroojeda1572]

@@alessandrodelogu7931 i just don't understand it. Do they know how much damage they've done? Instead of trying to paint a objective picture they dumped some emotional music and fancy adjectives to make it feel the way it does. That's not teaching that's lying.

[@dkb1124]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eInNd4CEZtCogs0

[@musing.quotes]

jews muslims and christians used to live together in harmony, then everything changed when the catholic church attacked. unexpectedly.

[@ivanvera7039]

And who is the avatar? The ideas of the French enlightenment?

[@christianmendozatapia295]

This idea that they were all living peacefully while riding unicorns and watching rainbows is a leftist myth used to demonize Christianity - the most important ideology ever conceived.

[@nicmagtaan1132]

but the Catholic Church is already there from the the start right as far as i know,

[@christianmendozatapia295]

@@nicmagtaan1132 its leftist propaganda designed to attack Judeo-Christian principles. Of course the Catholic church was there and the whole idea of everyone living in peace and riding unicorns is a complete lie. The Spanish did nothing wrong in the context of the time.

[@curemilkythecurebeanouwu9527]

Jews, Muslims and Christians long ago they lived in harmony but everything changed when the catholic church attacked (I GOT THE REFERENCE)

[@jeremyjacobs3903]

boy oh boy, I see Jesus all over this. He NEVER commanded his followers to do these hateful things...

[@mannyfernandez1713]

You oddly forgot to mention that confession under torture wasn’t considered proof enough and that they actually had to have proof, plus if the innocent party was wrongly accused the accuser was punished

[@fluffynator6222]

@Bo It literally just said that Jews, Christians and Muslims coexist under one ruler. Nothing more.

[@rumblefish9]

Yes, this piece is tainted with so much propaganda. The truth is, a lot of what we think the Spanish Inquisition was was myth. In most cases, if heretics repented, they were absolved from their sins. Torture was rarely used. "The Spanish Inquisition happened, but most of what we think we know about it is a myth according to more recent studies. One of the main things that happened in the era, aside the scientific revolution, was a multi-state war between Catholicism and Protestantism. The myth of Spanish Inquisition was spread over this propaganda war."

[@royendershade8044]

@Major Probelms *people who care to read historical documents instead of just assuming popular legends.

[@uberneanderthal]

they oddly forgot to mention a lot of things that didn't fit their narrative.

[@user-ck4qp5dl6i]

Back then yes it was.

[@jojoabellar2536]

I can't help but feel sorry for those innocent souls during those times.

[@James-en1ob]

Well you cannot change the past

[@zejdland]

Too much to feel sorry to... life doesn't matter

[@zejdland]

@Abdessamad my life doesn't matter..

[@zejdland]

@Abdessamad think of it like this someone probably died in a very sad way around 40000 years ago and we don't know their pain..

[@zejdland]

@Abdessamad maybe I care too much?

[@TCM1231]

The fact that this video quotes an atheist who hates the church less than a second in tells me all that I need to know about this video...

[@hoselui]

In 2004, the "Acts of the international symposium: The inquisition" were published, thanks to the opening of the secret archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ordered by John Paul II in 1998. These minutes contain the entire Catholic position in matter of documentation on the inquisitorial processes in Catholic Europe where the Holy See ruled in the spiritual field. Thus, the following data was disseminated to the public about people who were burned at the stake for accusation of witchcraft: Germany: 25,000 (over 16 million inhabitants) Poland - Lithuania: 10,000 (about 3 million and 400,000 inhabitants, respectively) Switzerland: 10,000 (over 1 million inhabitants) France: 4,000 (from the 15th to the 18th centuries) United Kingdom: 2,500 Denmark - Norway: 1600 (over 970,000 inhabitants) Spain: 49 Italy: 36 Portugal: 4

[@gawayne1374]

Under canonical law, only Catholics could be judged by the inquisition. This judgement would occur under the normal circumstances of judgement, where both the accuser and the accused would have to face each other (no anonymity) in trial, with evidence to support the accusation. People who then formally renounced their faith would be excommunicated, while repenting Catholics would be given confession and penance. It was only unrelenting Catholics who could be legally punished beyond excommunication. Anything that happened outside these bounds is analogous to what our justice system today experiences through corruption. Simply listing a few facts in this format does very little to provide the necessary context to understand it completely. Also, Spain suffered from a compete economic collapse due to inflation caused by the large quantities of gold imported from the colonies. Saying that they missed out on the enlightenment because of the inquisition is short sighted and inaccurate. It also assumes that "enlightenment" is a process by which a society progresses, but it was just a philosophical movement. Spain had their own cultural Revolution throughout the Golden Centuries (as they are known in Spanish history). I'm pretty disappointed a video like this was produced by Ted.

[@alessandrodelogu7931]

Are you from Spain? I'm from Sardinia, a former Spanish province, but here the Inquisition killed nobody.

[@estherjimenezprados]

I agree, I felt this video was misinformed and supported by dark legends more than real facts. Of course the Inquisition was a very wrong chapter in our history, but this doesn't feel like a right approach and doesn't explain the context and the real data of why it happened (also the Spanish one wasn't as deadly as everyone thinks, although it was bad of course).

[@alessandrodelogu7931]

@@estherjimenezprados I agree. Religious intolerance contributed to the decline of Spain, but there were many other factors too. It wasn't just fault of the Inquisition.

[@estherjimenezprados]

@@alessandrodelogu7931 Absolutely, it was a very complex situation that led to the decline of the Empire

[@herodotus945]

@@estherjimenezprados the Inquisition was the first judicial body in Europe to have established rules of evidence, recognize an insanity plea, ban arbitrary punishments, and dismiss anonymous accusations. It was actually closer to modern jurisprudence than most secular courts of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. They also believed that the accuser held the burden of proof, whereas most secular governments at the time required the accused to prove their own innocence.

[@ferdnvdeutschland2904]

I'm Spanish, and In Córdoba and Toledo, are interesting museums about that topic.

[@ultimatebishoujo29]

No way

[@JesusMariaBusteloAcevedo]

@Barbie dolls And barbie dolls too!

[@slimanebelarabi6303]

Granada too bro

[@ferdnvdeutschland2904]

@@slimanebelarabi6303 I've not visited yet that city, but I suppose that also.

[@slimanebelarabi6303]

@@ferdnvdeutschland2904 absolutely sure buddy, it was the capital of the empire of Morish, and you can see the incredible Muslim touch from the entry of the city. You'll love it Good luck

[@mooooo1974]

"Thou shalt not kill" > The region - believers Inquisition: So anyways, we started our questionable actions

[@wolfthequarrelsome504]

Who says?

[@HOENUMAN]

​@@wolfthequarrelsome504ten commandments and Jesus too

[@nhy123123]

"friends turned in friends, neighbors accused neighbors": all too familiar for the Chinese people during the Cultural Revolution, from the fervour of the Red Guards.

[@siddharthtyagi8980]

sounds like present cancel culture. No proof just metaphorically hang the person.

[@dddhhh2612]

Like the Bolshevics during Stalin's Reign of Terror, though Stalin was a far more efficient killer.

[@fsdds1488]

Interestingly I have came across some documents on Red Guards, some of them were their diaries and it showed that at the very early stage, like the first few months of Cultural Revolution that the students in Beijing were acting quite peacefully, but from 1967 thungs spirall down very quickly as violence erupted and things are out of control.

[@arabianbatman736]

and red kemers, and gestapo and islam

[@JustAGuyWhoLikesStuff.]

McCarthyism?

[@Ramon51650]

The Holy Inquisition had been around since the Crusades; the ones in which all of Christendom participated. So it didn't pop into being in 1478, not was it established in all Spanish kingdoms as the narrator incorrectly states. It was Isabel; she was not Italian, so her proper name was not Isabella. It was often spelled as Ysabel as can be readily seen on documents and even the coat of arms of Puerto Rico. The Holy inquisition was first established in America and had its administrative centre in Cartagena de Indias and it was tasked with monitoring Europeans and enslaved Africans and any converted indigenous people; it was not sent to América to prosecute indigenous people because they were classified as soon-to-be Christians and therefore were not to be held responsible for matters of faith. Contrary to the narrator's spurious claim, the inquisition in the Spanish kingdoms had various categories of falling out grace with the church. It differentiated between people who practiced witchcraft and people prepared and sold spells - the latter most often the purview of widows and older women. The church viewed as mostly harmless within the bounds of what people used it; attract love, fortune, etc. There was no entering in contract with Satan or selling their soul. By church law a physician had to be present whenever torture was undertaken - there are museums all over Europe displaying torture devices, so you cannot sanely claim that it was solely used by the Spanish monarchy or the church; two separate entities with mandates that did not overlap. The narrator revels in the expulsion of 1492 while blithely ignoring other kingdoms' histories of expulsions of Jews: England 1290 France 1306, 1321 and 1394. German principalities and Italian states 14th and 16th centuries; Hungary 1394; Austria 1421; Lithuania 1445 and 1495; Portugal 1497; Bohemia and Moravia in 1744. It is a matter of record that more women were accused and burned at the stake in German Europe than all the people similarly punished in Spanish kingdoms during the same era. The narrator tosses out a vague number of death attributed to the inquisition while ignoring the fact that fatalities in England exceeded her highest number; somewhere in the vicinity of 35,000 due to infighting on that island. I don't expect to change the thinking of people who have already made up their minds, or better stated had their minds made up for them, but I couldn't leave this drivel unchallenged.

[@Fugitivez03]

You're turning a bling eye, my friend. The Spanish Inquisition did more damage than you can ever imagine, in Africa, South America and Asia. No mercy, no physician, no kindness - imperialism and inquisitions have shattered the very existence of many families and communities.

[@Ramon51650]

@@Fugitivez03 Back your assertion with recent academic reference speaking specifically about the topic....

[@porcelynne2283]

This is kinda whataboutism.

[@Ramon51650]

@@porcelynne2283 ???

[@induction7895]

@@Ramon51650 Whataboutism: What about Germany? What about England? What about Crusaders?...

[@geertwilders5798]

If you're ever wondering why Spain and Portugal are a 100% Catholic with no 'indigenous' Jewish, Muslim and none-Catholic minorities; This video is the answer.

[@javiervicedo4201]

Sorry, you have no idea. According with the documents presented by the Vatican in 1.998 during the Symposium on the Inquisition... German Inquisition: 25.000 deads, Poland 10.000 deads, Swiss: 10.000 deads, France: 4.000 deads, United Kingdom: 2.500 deads, Denmark: 1.600 deads, Spain: 49 deads, Italy: 36 deads, Portugal: 4 deads...

[@samarkants4444]

The Islamic conquest of Iberian Peninsula is equally brutal

[@goodaimshield1115]

Equally? It was FAR more brutal. But that's kind of normal, that's what a conquest by force is usually like.

[@siegque]

The Inquisition started in 12th-century France to combat religious dissent, particularly among the Cathars and the Waldensians. The inquisitorial courts from this time until the mid-15th century are together known as the Medieval Inquisition. Other groups investigated during the Medieval Inquisition, which primarily took place in France and Italy, including the Spiritual Franciscans, the Hussites (followers of Jan Hus), and the Beguines. (Wikipedia)

[@burper-oe6tm]

"Grand Inquisitor" is kinda funny in terms of name choice cus Ezra is a Hebrew name

[@ewelinanajgebauer8862]

Star wars reference eh?

[@fullyautomaticall]

These spanish inquisitors don’t look as menacing 😂

[@aydininal]

It reminded me what is being practiced NOW in Turkey by Erdogan regime. Even worse, they dont allow them to leave but condemn them to annihilation.

[@Satisfyer007]

Accodrding yo Kamen, it's between 3000 and 9000 the number of people executed by the Inquisition. Far away from the mucho higher number of St Bartholomews night. Not to mention than the Inquisition was created in Langedoc (France) several centuries before the Spanish

[@JerryMan68]

You thought this was a Ted-Ed video but it was us! The Spanish Inquisition! No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[@LuinTathren]

How unexpected!

[@thedarksavior0]

Can't tell if this is a Monty Python or Jojo reference. 😋

[@daliblue_]

@@thedarksavior0 🤣

[@nikhilpranav6915]

@@thedarksavior0 Why not both?

[@devilex121]

KONO SPANISH INQUISITION DA

[@j.e.a.n]

You forgot to say that in 7 centuries, Spanish Inquisition delivered less death sentences than US courts did between 1976 and 2000, or less than Pakistan, Egypt, China or Algeria... did in a just few decades in recent times. You have to look to serious and confirmed estimates (from the main historians/specialists like Botromeo). The Tribunal of the Holy Office was mainly a court of appeal, for people who were already sentenced, and was far less severe than civil courts. It was most of the time a way to get these sentences reduced. Long story short: KZbin infographic shows are entertaining, but have any reliable content.

[@iron2684]

This, but the Spanish inquisition was terrible for modern standards. However, if we look at it from historical standards, like we should, it wasn't very bad

[@bluesy666]

There is no such things as confirmed estimates , much of the people fled Hispania ,this is not a quantitative science ,what is sure being myself descendant of the inquisition victims , you just need read history and hope these things don’t repeat why taking such stands …

[@Sujay95]

triggered catholic spotted

[@bornbranded29]

@@Sujay95 is he right or wrong?

[@Brslld]

@@Sujay95 is he incorrect though?

[@albertoperez3254]

The Holy Office was a repressive apparatus that caused a brutal delay in Spain, but its history is dotted with myths in a Europe where religious persecution was even more cruel. Compared to the 25,000 women burned at the stake as witches in Germany, to the tens of thousands hanged and then (while still breathing) dismembered in the England of Elizabeth I, it is well documented that during the three hundred years that the Spanish inquisition lasted they were 3000 sentenced to death. (Henry Kamen). The Spanish inquisitors are represented in films and novels as sadistic fanatics who made Spain the most backward territory in Europe and burned an endless number of Jews, witches, Muslims and especially Protestants. It is considered the most terrible and merciless episode of the Catholic Church. Not in vain, the Holy Office was a mechanism inherent to the Modern Age that, unlike the medieval inquisition, responded directly to royal authority, was used as an organ of social control and did not accept as valid the testimonies obtained by torture. And although the number of deaths caused by the activity of the Holy Office in the Iberian Peninsula was much lower than that produced by the religious wars, which bled France, Germany or England during the 16th and 17th centuries, in the popular imagination they are the Spaniards were the only ones who earned the reputation of bloodthirsty radicals.

[@kirito1754]

I know some people might read this so don’t hate the Catholic Church. After all the punishments weren’t done by the church. It goes against church law that any priest , bishop ,etc. to participate in any violence. Now I’m not gonna say that there wasn’t a rogue priest or bishop participating in these because if they had that would be the most un-Christian to do also breaking church laws/code.

[@alvarotaravillo8260]

3:55 in Spain we have a common expression about the San Benito, it is "cargar con el Sanbenito" which means to carry the blame of something that you haven't done

[@robertoortizhernandez4706]

¡Qué buen dato ! Gracias por compartirlo.

[@byan3190]

Do you speak any other expression or words about that period or refer to it ? In your local culture do you have something like that?

[@alvarotaravillo8260]

@@byan3190 Of course! We have a lot of them. I'm gonna give you some example that we often say. -No dar un palo al agua: The literal translation is "don't give a stick to the water" and means that you are slothy or idle. The stick was the row and the origin of it comes from the deck of a ship where men had to row and the idlers ones didn't sink the row and they moved it just in the surface having to do less effort while rowing. -No hay moros en la costa: There are no moorish in the coastline Moros (Moorish) is how we have called to people originally from the North of Africa for centuries. This phrase comes from the XVI century when the pirates of the North of Africa devastated the coastlines so the Spanish had to put watchers on them and when they saw no pirates they said that phrase and the ship set off. On the other hand there are as well some words like CHAQUETERO that is someone who is unpredictable and unreliable that tend to change of side easily. The word *chaqueta* means coat and the origin comes from the Protestant reformation in Spain on which many Lutherans where persecuted by the Spanish inquisition, they were distinguished by their coats or chaquetas and when there were plot twists, they just turned over their coats so they can't be caught or distinguished. They are just a few of them but there are many more. Do you have any historical word or phrase in your country that you know?

[@byan3190]

@@alvarotaravillo8260 I am not spainish . I am Saudi but I am really interesting in Spain history & language. So I was amazed about these expersions . Its seems lik that period in Spain effect people so much so its made them to create an expressionto refer to that period by therie own languages .

[@byan3190]

Sorry If I bother you. But could you please recommend some books that speak about this linguistic phenomenon? Thanks in advance .

[@anotherordinaryguy4992]

Monty Python references never gets old.

[@ncrvako]

olny tiresome.

[@veryberry39]

I don't know, I'm tired of it already.

[@HelgaCavoli]

Never.

[@jordandino417]

Still no killer bunny. >:c

[@h.inusitatus]

No, it does. It very much gets old when half the comments on any video talking about it is that god-awful joke, thinking they're original or funny for making the same joke for the millionth time.

[@angusyang5917]

Many of these Jewish and Muslim exiles from Spain and Portugal went on to become pirates raiding Spanish and Portuguese shipping.

[@creaflexkhalid8726]

Imagine how diverse Spain would be if this part of history didn't happen

[@jenkar5716]

These people should make a video on Goa Inquisition that took place in India.

[@Starwin-Darwin]

Ted ed is a western organisation. They are very narrow minded when it comes to the history of the rest of the world.

[@alves5466]

Based goa inquisition

[@HOENUMAN]

Goa inquisition was quite based Its main objective was to enforce Catholic Orthodoxy and allegiance to the Apostolic See of Rome (Pontifex). The inquisition primarily focused on the New Christians accused of secretly practicing their former religions, and Old Christians accused of involvement in the Protestant Revolution of the 16th century. It was established in 1560, briefly suppressed from 1774 to 1778, continued thereafter until it was finally abolished in 1812.

[@user-ki3ur8bb2o]

NO ONE EVER EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION Edit: are you telling me they did expect the inquisition

[@karlmarxii4639]

Nobody even commented bro

[@user-ki3ur8bb2o]

@@karlmarxii4639 shut it Karl who spells Carl with a "k"

[@James-en1ob]

Yes!

[@genghiskhan5701]

Historically spekaing, you were notified in advance to prepare a defense. The Spanish Inquisition were actually pretty tame in the time period

[@user-ki3ur8bb2o]

@@genghiskhan5701 it was a joke

[@justinspainard]

The 'Holy" Inquisition was started in France, I don't recall when but in fact many Templars Knight's along with their Master's were persecuted and then executed by the French Inquisition with the okay of the King which he wrongfully accused them of being heretics along with others who didn't wanted to convert

[@romyshusband]

Isabella II didn’t sign the decree, it was her mother Queen Maria Cristina de Borbon, who acted as regent to the then-infant Isabella II.

[@bartj8058]

Animation 9/10, Historical accuracy 1/10, Analysis -2/10. Hald of the video is not even about the inquisition but the Spanish church. Seeing Umberto Eco at the beginning convinced me that this movie was made to shock not to educate. Also talking about inquisition without mentioning the one from middle ages....

[@piotrtoborek2442]

Ditto!

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody ever does.

[@ultimatebishoujo29]

Yup

[@alejandroojeda1572]

You know...they sent a fricking letter a month before taking you. There's a really good video from history matters which gives some needed context

[@nathanpluquet730]

Please revise the content of this video. There are huge confusions made between inquisitorial courts and secular courts in Spain. Unlike what is depicted here, the inquisition in Spain was relatively lenient, cautious in distributing harsh sanctions, and only used torture in a minority of cases. This behavior is explained by the educated background of inquisitors, and contrasts what the Spanish archives recount of trials led by secular authorities, much more brutal and unqualified to administer sanctions in legal courts. Due to the inactivity of the Spanish Inquisition in some regions of Spain, notably Catalonia in the 16th and 17th centuries, these secular courts ended up leading most of the trials for supercticiones and were the ones who forced prisoners into confessions through the use of torture. Chains of witchcraft trials were thus formed as under the pain of torture, witches gave the names of their alleged accomplices, who were then arrested and tried for the same crimes of maleficium.

[@alestine]

The Philippines was named after King Philip II of Spain. Bittersweet to have 'Alejandro' as my name. We cannot escape the 333 years of history of inquisition. I still have my respects to Catholics who remained faithful to their religion after this regime.

[@alsadekalkhayer7007]

Dark is human history, no wonder our present isn't shining

[@James-en1ob]

Just focus on the good things in life and all will be well besides nothing is perfect

[@mobeenkhan824]

Zhianne Silawan A horrible idea, focus on both the good and bad and focus only on the bad when you can change the bad or learn from it, if you can not then ignore it.

[@TylerSolvestri]

Humans are animals with the possiblity of domesticating themselves to unimaginable progress. After, we are animals, and in the animal world there's no good nor bad.

[@alsadekalkhayer7007]

@@TylerSolvestri being human is what makes us different from animals. Unfortunately, however, not all of us are good at it, being human that is.

[@TylerSolvestri]

@@alsadekalkhayer7007 Humans isn't really a different thing from animals. According to science we evolved from our ancestors which were primates/apes, the only difference between us and animals is the way we make our thoughts practical to give the nature a meaning which helps us understand it and take control of its resources. That's my view on that topic.

[@glasscardproductions4736]

"And here's the Spanish Inquisition hiding behind the tool shed!" "Well, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!" Ted: *"NO-ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!"*

[@alejandroojeda1572]

You know...they sent a letter a month before taking you

[@lucypeirce1107]

Our chief weapon is surprise

[@thecrippledpancake9455]

Absolutely insane that the Spanish authorities didn’t see nursing and exiling people as sinful.

[@antoniorangel8277]

England expelled the Jews in the XII century, 300 years before Spain! ... the Moors were not even local population, they were mercenaries brought from North Africa.

[@Ali-gd3ud]

@@fedevida1951 yah but the muslims who you claimed that they are not tolerant let the Christians and jewish to live with them so now half of Lebanon and 8 billion on Egypt 10% of Syria are Christians and even turkey had almost 2 billion Christians at 1923 before population exchange with greek according to religion under greek request and even Georgia and Armenia was christan majority under islamic rule even tho they fight us many times with mongols and crusades but we are very tolerant because the real belief coming from heart so you should’t force any one to follow your religion

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@fedevida1951 Yeah, I wrote this to some people and they were like how dare you, are you anti-semitic (I wrote as in that is why they did it and it may have been justified.)? Do not get me wrong, the sadness I feel is over the lack of concerted conversion but nonetheless this was a threat.

[@localteamanreans9012]

I love how they talk like as if the Conquests of Spain and Constantinople or the Invasion of Greece by Suliman and etc didn't happen

[@Empty411]

My fav channel of all the others- you've got all the most interesting and awesome vids ever! 🥳

[@theonenamedWeeeLaddie]

I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition to be in Ted-Ed.

[@LewisC-iu3hh]

Long live Spain, the King and the holy Roman Catholic Church! From a Mexican and Native American, in California! 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 ❤️ ⛪️

[@davidmccarroll2280]

Indoctrinated much?

[@Alejojojo6]

@@davidmccarroll2280 You definitely.

[@TheOvervoid]

Good you have pride, but man is this inappropriate 😐

[@User-fc2nn]

Hablar con los anglosajones es una perdida de tiempo, solo nos queda a nosotros reivindicar nuestro pasado saludos desde Perú y viva La Hispanidad.🇪🇦🇵🇪🇲🇽

[@LewisC-iu3hh]

@@User-fc2nn 💯 ❤️

[@mentalhell4846]

I wasn't expecting this video on my recommended list.

[@kevinfernandes9930]

This Inquisition was carried to Goa, India by the Portuguese as well, targeting Jews and native converts to Catholicism.

[@dompuma9620]

And to the Americas too. Pretty sickening.

[@rimacalid6557]

Muslims mainly

[@saynomore693]

Yes they even burnt down the records of inquistion when they stopped this practice in 1812... Don't know how many poor souls suffered due to this idiotic and fanatic practice.

[@hussienbintalal91]

Did it work?

[@kevinfernandes9930]

@@hussienbintalal91 it did. To some extent

[@merkel7647]

La leyenda negra española. It was awful, but it wasnt the thing described on the vid. As always, it is way more complex.

[@ancient9270]

Alguien que entiende, los anglosajones nunca aprenden

[@hdejong1295]

I agree

[@starlight9857]

Of course it is. What did you think a 5 minute video would cover?

[@gusfraba9195]

Fué necesaria para asegurar la unidad de España. La "diversidad" es una debilidad no una fortaleza.

[@LewisC-iu3hh]

How many “witches” were burned/killed in Protestant England or Germany or Us colonies? Ten times more than the Spanish Inquisition ever did! Viva Espana y el Rey!! 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 ❤️

[@romo9122]

That's true. The protestants burned way more witches. The Spanish however forcefully converted South America and the Asian colonies. Let's not pretend Spain is without blame 😅

[@LewisC-iu3hh]

@@romo9122 I’m half Native American ancestry, my physical traits are Native American, 56% Native American genetics, according to ancestry dna test. My people were never “forced” to convert to Catholicism! Catholicism spread because it’s the only true religion on earth! It spread because people liked it and supported it! Most people who see me would consider me a Native American and I am a proud catholic! The Spanish converted native Americans because they believed we were humans, who had a soul! The Protestants in the US and Canada didn’t even view native Americans as human beings, thus why they genocided 30 million of our Native American people! Spain allowed intermarriage between Spanish, native Americans, Filipinos since 1514!! While the Protestants didn’t allow it until the 1900s!!

[@lauramartin-bk9nr]

@@romo9122 "Forcefully converted" meant ending cannibalism and human sacrifices, which were religious practices all over Mexico, Central and South America. Spain built 350 hospitals in the 16th century for all races (native Spaniards were always a small minority).

[@romo9122]

@@lauramartin-bk9nr Great...did they have a choice to stay "heathens"? Nope, so still forced.

[@Kokudou_Risa]

@@LewisC-iu3hh Lol, Filipinos says otherwise... We are all forced to convert if not, we will be shot or hanged

[@jenniferschillig3768]

I'm going to buck the trend here... "The Inquisition...what a show! The Inquisition...here we go! We know you're wishin' That we'd go away... But the Inquisition's here And it's here to stay!"

[@emmarose4234]

*cries*

[@nocosa]

Embrace the separation of church and state? Like in England where the head of state is the king or queen?

[@alejandroojeda1572]

Yeah. I had to laugh out loud there. The Protestant nations were most often than not the other way around...the made state religions. That's about as far from separation of the church and state as you can get

[@alvarotaravillo8260]

However, in Spain it is said that the Inquisition killed in a very sadic way, with rough torture machines, but that´s not completly true, the inquisition acused many people as heretics, but eventually, the common hails were even worst than the Inquisition trials, infact, people who commited any crime, rather prefer to be tried by them just to avoid to be tortured so strict. It's kinda a rumour that has been spread around Spain.

[@JALUone1]

Pobres los subscriptores de todo el mundo al aprender historia unicamente de los anglosajones

[@diegogm4614]

@@JALUone1 exacto,lo mismo con la leyenda negra,Latinoamérica entera nos odia

[@JALUone1]

@@diegogm4614 *hispanoamérica

[@rumblefish9]

There is a lot of anti catholic propaganda thats been tied to the Inquisition. People assume hundreds and thousands or millions were killed and tortured but the truth was in most areas, killings and tortures were rare. The areas were it did happen, there was an underlying economic reason for it.

[@alvarotaravillo8260]

@@diegogm4614 cierto, en las leyes de burgos fue un ejemplo en el que los reyes catolicos defendieron los derechos de los indigenas como ciudadanos del reino castellano, aunque después en la leyenda negra se hicieran falsas acusaciones

[@robertbrown5319]

I visited Cartegena, Colombia a few years ago and went to the Spanish Inquisition museum.

[@perik7124]

So you went to a museum to see fiction?

[@el_nesto1844]

I know that museum, it is full of objects made in the XX century and they say that they tortured natives while it was illegal to kill and torture natives, the inquisition could only judge peninsular iberians.

[@mnlpsvsapo]

I'm from Portugal and we too had an Inquisition there; because of that aberration , Portugal remained one of the poorest countries in Europe ( at least till the last quarter of XX century ) . Yes , a flux of wealth arrived in Portugal coming from India or Brasil but it was spent in churchs and monasteries where thousands of religious men and women lived without working . Meanwhile we also expelled jews and moors , people with culture nedded to boost the economy ; most of the portuguese jews fled to Flanders or Holland where they became a rich and respected part of the society ( the philosopher Espinosa descended from portuguese jews ) . To exclude or expell someone or somepart of the society of a country provokes very often poverty .

[@Licht.von.Stein.]

It is anachronistic to judge people in those times. Religious persecution is prevalent in countries wether they are Catholic or Protestant, Christian or Muslim. If the Inquisition hamper Spain's progress, then why did the Spanish Golden Age occur during the period of the Inquisition?

[@viktordiezel156]

No, it is not anachronistic. Religious tolerance is not an invention of the modern age, there are plenty of examples of religious tolerance, be it in Europe, India, Japan and the middle east before or around that time. Even in this video they mention that Spain was a diverse, multi ethical country. Pre-Inquisition Spain was a great example of a peaceful coexistence of jews and muslims for example. So it is not that those people didn't know better - they were fanatics, or extremist how we would say today. And the golden age of Spain started in 1492 with Columbus going to America, which was the beginning of the Spanish colonial empire, in case you wonder where the money came from..

[@perik7124]

@@viktordiezel156 The "peaceful coexistence" of Al Andalus is a myth. There was no such thing. People lived in neighborhoods separated by religion and did not mix. Non-Muslims had to pay an infidel tax and were second class citizens. There were many hostilities and rebellions. You just repeat cliches and propaganda.

[@klattalexis]

The cross has always been drenched in blood by the churches, both Catholic & Protestant.

[@JesusMariaBusteloAcevedo]

That's true, they used religion as political tool and oppression.

[@sortingoutmyclothes8131]

Oh, wow, I was not expecting this!

[@bornbranded29]

This is a poorly researched, inaccurate middle school level bunch of lies

[@srdjan455]

0:50 forgetting of course to mention that Spain was only diverse at that point because it conquered by the Caliphate some time prior, kicking out the ruling Visigoths (who they themselves conquered Spain from Rome) And that the smaller kingdoms only came about because the Caliphate was collapsing

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Iberia was always diverse. Before rome you had Celts, Iberians and other peoples alike intermingling with each other Then came the Punic settlements across the coastline and finally the Roman major assimilation and settlement. After the romans left, several kingdoms invaded and settled the peninsula, some briefly (Vandals and Alans), some more permanently (Visigoths and Suevos) Then, last but not least, came the caliphate that brought the moors who settled the south.

[@hemnos6066]

Great Job and animation Like always By Ted Ed. Great Video Keep it up!

[@derkaiser420]

Many historians believe that the inquisition was why Spain fell from grace as an European super power. England, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, and Portugal all embraced science and technology while it was illegal in Spain. I am glad that this lesson didn't divulge too much into the torture because that is what I thought it was going to be about. I always like your lessons Ted, keep it up.

[@drsharkboy6568]

“Fetch me... the comfy chair!”

[@chusty93]

I'm not so sure. All of the countries you mentioned had their inquisitions during the 1600's. In fact, they were the protagonists of the witch hunt period (especially Germany, France and England)

[@darraghmol9157]

Which historians believe this? As far as I understand it, Spain was supplanted as a European super power because of the rise of France, England and the Netherlands as military and industrial powers - ironically part of this rise was due to these states becoming less religiously pluralistic. England crushed Catholic royalists, the Dutch secured independence from the Catholic Spanish and became largely Protestant, meanwhile France crushed the Huguenot Protestants and became uniformly Catholic. This reduction of religious pluralism is directly related to the rise of these states, more authority and power went to the people in charge and they were able to directly use this power for state projects: military, industrial and colonial. It certainly did not mean these states became less technologically or scientifically advanced. Note: I don't think this was a good thing, but nothing really points to these events having largely negative effects on stately matters - it is a different story, of course, for civil and cultural matters. Furthermore, Spain was a state that did not develop focus industrial bases such as the ones that developed in England, the Netherlands and France - related to this was Spain's great siphoning of wealth from the New World. They took the raw resources back to Spain, but for the most part sold them to other states in Europe to be refined and produced into useful goods. In this way, Spain did not have a great industrial base upon which they could rely to compete economically with other states. It was this economic difficulty that led to the atrophy of the Spanish military in Europe. Spain's military in Early Modern Europe were a force to be reckoned with, but France, under the reign of newly powerful monarchs, displaced the Spanish as the main military power in Europe. Spain, for it's part, could not afford to maintain the massive armies they had previously funded in the Netherlands and Northern Italy. Even as all this happened, Spain was still a strong cultural power in Europe. Art, science, literature were all theatres were Spain still maintained a good deal of influence even as it fell in rank among the great European powers. tl/dr: Spain had a lot of issues, but the Inquisition didn't have any apparent relation to the fall of Spain as the no.1 power in Europe.

[@estherjimenezprados]

I am sorry but I what I've read is in fact that historians think the opposite. Inquisition was terrible of course, but not the central factor of the Empire's decline. I am Spanish and I was expecting a more completed and right approach in this video to be honest.

[@chusty93]

@@darraghmol9157 Thank you! Spain's decline was a combination of a bad colonial economic model and competition with other emerging colonial powers. I should add the influence of the Spanish war of succession, which gave England a lot of control over the seas, and left both Spain and France weakened. The point of no return was the latinamerican independence from Spain. Spain would find itself recently liberated from Napoleon but with no colonies.

[@bangarJb]

Hearing and seeing the history and context of all of this happening, still shocks me. But also...thinking of Mel Brook's History of the world Part 1.

[@yntr7914]

2:42 - "Convert or leave" now why does that sound familiar... oh that's right, "Convert, leave or die overnight" - The Kashmir Files

[@tayebizem3749]

At least it's better than "convert or die" in the other side Sometimes you should pay the Djizya so you can live 🙂🙂

[@andevm5922]

Inquisition started in 1184 on the south of France, Lengadòc, not in Spain as requirement of the Catholic Kings.

[@trex5863]

Day 1 of telling Ted-ed that its daily uploads are appreciated!

[@ghostderazgriz]

Day 1?

[@isaiah3872]

How long do you intend to do this? For 365 days? Because I'm down to like each comment

[@sirvajraputr445]

I did not expect this at all !

[@CommanderPaulB]

I mean we shouldn’t play down what happened in Spain but there were more people killed, expelled and tortured just during the fall of Constantinople than in 300 Years of Spanish Inquisition.

[@Gloriaimperial1]

Even in Germany: 25,000 witches burned, and another 50,000 peasants murdered for religious reasons, in the 16th century In the French religious wars 2-3 million people died, murdered, sometimes savagely (16th century) In England there was a very strong religious persecution, which expelled hundreds of thousands of people to the 13 colonies and Europe. In addition to savage torture and kill The French Revolution killed 50,000 people with the guillotine in the 18th century...

[@crxdelsolsir]

It worked and it is what was needed to restore Spain. Before you all complain, this practice still exists and it is practiced most by the Islamic religion. Sharia police ring a bell? How about mercy killings? They follow essentially the same beliefs, processes and practices in their home countries as the Spanish Inquisition. You have people secretly alerting authorities, authorities with no uniforms door knocking, unfair trails and biased/partisan legal system. That is how they keep other religions out and why their culture, way of thinking is essentially untouched while that of the West has been eroded. This practice is what is needed to restore and what is needed to maintain Europe if there is such a unity in the will and unity in the preservation of Europe that was just in the last couple of centuries ago.

[@StValentine-uh5lv]

I'm a catholic, and I clicked on this video expecting to see hundreds of comments talking about how horrible the catholic church is, but I didn't see a single one. I'm happy knowing that people no longer believe that we are archaic and frightening and that we can be accepted as Christian brothers and sisters as well!

[@kolgax2064]

Some religious groups can be a bit much but overall mostly it's best to not pre judge people based on their beliefs.

[@bvillafuerte765]

Every religion has its positive, neutral and negative points. But you should never focus on extremes.

[@chardi5800]

The problem is the church, not the ppl following Christianity

[@kirstenbaluarte8023]

not all people are Christian. We can't coexist.

[@amany247]

No god but Allah Islam way for peace and real monotheist Search about the truth with honest heart

[@queimportaqueimporta]

"The Inquisition quickly turned its attention to ridding the region of people who were not part of the Catholic Church" The Inquisition only dealt with people that were part of the Catholic Church. Those who were not part of the Catholic Church were outside of its jurisdiction.

[@SAADOFFICIAL436]

What about persecution on muslims amd jews??

[@johnisaacfelipe6357]

@@SAADOFFICIAL436 That came after during the Alhambra decree wherein jews and Muslims were forced out of Spain (even in this regard they were lenient as rather than forcing the inhabitants to leave, the Spanish government actually paid for their land as evident to the massive logs of land sales immediately after the decree), The inquisition was mainly against Crypto Catholics, Ie people who pretended to be Christian which meant that in their deceit, they have placed themselves under the auspice of the inquisition.

[@SAADOFFICIAL436]

@@johnisaacfelipe6357 so like thr moors and jews were just droven out Not forcefully converted in spain?

[@SAADOFFICIAL436]

@@johnisaacfelipe6357 bruh write again....

[@johnisaacfelipe6357]

@@SAADOFFICIAL436 KZbin removed my comment, shame