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Spanish Inquisition Jewish Population
1,537 wordsThe Spanish Inquisition is known for the terror it caused the inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula. The Inquisition began as a way to cleanse the nation of supposed heretics, but eventually came to have more racial and political motives as time wore on. The beginning of the Inquisition is generally credited to the reign of Ferdinand V and Isabella, though the anti-Jewish sentiments have been shown to begin well before their reign. Living in fourteenth century Spain, in Seville, there was an arch...
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Catholic Church Takes Place
1,119 wordsSeville, which is also known a Sevilla, is known as a large historical center in Europe. Seville lies on the left bank of the river Guadalquivir and 60 miles northeast of Cadiz. It is linked to Trial, Los Remedios and other newer areas to the west by four bridges. According to the 1988 census, the population is 663, 000. It is the forth largest city in Spain. The average temperature varies from 60 degrees in January to around 100 degrees in August. Seville is a major port as well as an important...
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Bob Marley Primarily Black Jamaica
650 wordsJamaica is one of the three islands in the Northern Caribbean forming the Greater Antilles. It's the largest English-speaking country in the Caribbean Sea, and stretches 146 miles from east to west. The country's name is derived from an Aarawak word "Xaymaca', meaning 'land of wood and water'. Jamaica has one of the richest and most varied landscapes in the region. The center of the island is mostly mountainous and heavily wooded, spotted occasionally with small mining towns and villages, while ...
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Santo Domingo Christopher Columbus
838 wordsChristopher Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search for the all-water route to Asia, but instead achieved fame for making landfall in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. His father was a weaver, and it is believed that Columbus entered this trade as a young man. In the mid- 1470 s he made his first trading voyage to the island of Kids, in the Aegean Sea. Settling in Lisbon, where...
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Son In Law King And Queen
1,136 wordsDiego De Silva Velazquez was born in Seville in 1599. When he turned twelve he was apprenticed to the painter Francisco Pacheco. After finishing his apprenticeship in 1617 he was married. With his wife, Juana, he had two daughters, Francisca, and Ignacio. Diego became a well known painter while living in Seville. The turning point in Velazquez's life occurred when he was appointed to paint the King, Philip IV. There was a sitting on 30 August 1623, and the portrait when finished received the gre...
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One Of The Vessels Magellan Voyage Maximilian
639 wordsIn the early 1500 s, almost four and a half centuries before men first orbited the earth; an expedition completed and led by Ferdinand Magellan performed a task of comparable significance for that time period. Magellan, a Portuguese navigator for Spain, sailed westward with a fleet of five ships from the port of Sanlucar de Barrameda in September, 1519. Nearly three years later one ship returned, having circumnavigated the globe and crossed its largest ocean. A Philippine battle is where Magella...
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Spanish Inquisition Catholic Church
1,072 wordsThe Spanish Inquisition and Christianity The Spanish Inquisition began as a quest to purify Spain of heretics, but it soon became much more than that. There are two very distinct views of what really happened during the time of the Inquisition. One longstanding belief is that of the terror of the Inquisition as a thing of nightmares where thousands of people were subjected to cruel torture. The other, more modern, view is that the Inquisition was no where near as terrible as it had been proclaim...
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