ANTH-150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Catholic Monarchs, Culture Shock
23 Feb 2016
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Who were the conversos: the conversos were people who were formerly jewish, but then forced to become catholic, they were discriminated against because they felt jews could not experience true conversions, and that their blood was impure. What is the inquisition: the inquisition was a group of institutions within the judicial system of the roman catholic church whose aim was to combat heresy, non-christians must be executed, as the inquisition was about. Purifying the blood", which can be viewed as an early form of racism. Who were the catholic kings: isabella and ferdinand married pureblood, as they were cousins. Part 2: write a comprehensive summary discussing (10 points) Common ground of humankind: all humans are fundamentally the same in the sense that all humans have the ability to learn in order to survive.
