What was it? The Spanish inquisition was a tool used by the Catholic monarchs of Spain to suppress heresy among the church. The inquisition was mainly aimed at recently converted Jews, as well as Muslim converts. The accused would be tried at a court, or tribunal, which would travel around the country.

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella appointed the Spanish Inquisition in order to secure both their rule and religious preference and through these actions effectively sent terror throughout the regions of their new Christian communities.

Spanish Inquisition, (1478–1834), judicial institution ostensibly established to combat heresy in Spain. In practice, the Spanish Inquisition served to consolidate power in the monarchy of the newly unified Spanish kingdom, but it achieved that end through infamously brutal methods.

What was the Spanish Inquisition? To purify Spain by getting rid of everyone who didn’t believe like them.

What best describes the outcome of the Spanish Inquisition? Christian armies defeated Muslims and took control of Spain.

Spanish empire: 1492 – 1968 – Oxford Reference.

Gold and silver from her massive American empire fueled Spanish dreams to wrest control of Italy and the Netherlands from France, and to spread Catholicism all across the world. And yet, 300 years later, the Treaty of Paris ended the Spanish-American War, and with it, the Spanish colonial empire died.

It became more of a war between France and Spain. Spain lost the war and territories and the right to be called a world power, bringing about the decline of the Spanish empire which the Anglo Spanish war helped cement. By crowning their own king and expelling the Spanish from their country.