1. Consider POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES
Entry Task You are a student in Spain. Your fellow students include Christians, Muslims, and Jews. A new king wants all Muslims and Jews to leave Spain.
How will the ruler’s decision affect your friends? How do you feel about this?
Consider POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES

2. Table of Contents Update
P : Decline of Muslim Rule Notes

3. Objective
I can analyze the Reconquista and Spanish inquisition and evaluate how Muslims’ power declined in Spain,
SPI 7.42 Outline the decline of Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula that culminated in the Reconquista, Inquisition, and the rise of Spanish and Portuguese kingdoms. (C, G, H)

4. THE INQUISITION 1232
Heresy- religious ideas that oppose accepted church teachings.
Churches sent friars and priests throughout Europe to find possible heretics.

5. The weakening of Muslim control
711 – the Moors (Muslims) invade the Iberian Peninsula (Spain)
Late 900s – Muslim government of Spain begins to weaken when political & religious leaders fight each other over power
In 1002 – Muslim government falls completely

6. Reconquista
As the Moors’ power declined, Christian kingdoms to the north seized the opportunity to attack. Slowly, they took land away from the Moors. They called this Reconquista (Reconquest)
The Reconquista lasted from

8. Rise of Spain & Portugal
As a result of the victory of Reconquista, Spain and Portugal grew more powerful.
In 1469 Prince Ferdinand married Princess Isabella- they became the King and Queen and ruled all of Spain
CHALLENGE:
In 23 years, Ferdinand and Isabella will commission an Italian to go on a voyage to the Indies. Who is he and what did he find?

9. The Rule of Ferdinand & Isabella
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella brought an end to the Reconquista.
They required all the Spanish Jews to convert to Christianity or leave the country.
A few years later they banned the practice of Islam as well. Through the policy, all of Spain became Christian.

10. Spanish Inquisition
Isabella and Ferdinand only wanted Christianity in their kingdom.
To ensure that ONLY Christianity was practiced, they created the Spanish Inquisition.
Spanish Inquisition: an organization of priests that looked for and punished anyone in Spain suspected of secretly practicing the old religion. It later spread to Portugal.

11. The Horrors of the Inquisition
Torture was often used to get information about who the heretics were and to get people to confess.
Most common forms of torture were strappado and the rack!
Inquisitors needed to extract a confession because they believed it was their duty to bring the accused back to the faith.
A true confession resulted in the accused being forgiven.
Many people were imprisoned for years and forgotten.
Thousands were killed in the most violent ways of the time…burning at the stake!