The Spanish Inquisition followed the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors - Muslims. It was the final act in purging Islam and its collaborators from Spain. This was a reaction to the cutthroats.
The Crusades? This was a reaction by the European aristocracy against the Muslim cutthroats who were coming to steal their property. Seems like a sensible response to me.
The opening of the New World? What's the problem? Are you against emigration?
The slave trade? Just think of it this way. The Europeans saved all those souls from the Muslim cutthroats who sold Africans to them. They saved them from otherwise getting their throats cut like they do now in Sudan.
The Merchant of Venice? What's fiction got to do with anything?
Whose property? says the Jew on the thread. 8>)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe most slaves were provided by other Africans. One tribe or group of people would fight, kill, and conquer another tribe/group, then sell the captives to the Europeans. The Europeans themselves couldn't have garnered enough feasible slave labor from just the ones they captured...
Not defending slavery, of course, but trying to clarify the notion that "evil white Europeans" came and grabbed Africans and enslaved them.
You have it right except that the Inquisition was aimed at the Jews or more specifically the Conversos. That is how they funded the war against the Muslims.
Don't get me wrong. I wish Genghis or Ferdinand had finished what they had begun, but Christians have done a lot of terrible things in the name of GOD too, not just the Muslims.
"The Spanish Inquisition followed the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors - Muslims. It was the final act in purging Islam and its collaborators from Spain. This was a reaction to the cutthroats."
A rather interesting take on the reconquistor...My people the Sephardim, have a different view however.