1492
Indian cultures. full info here:http://www.kwabs.com/tainos_caribs.html#redirect
You can be Burned and Heated
the indigenous people
exorcist
People are able to be burned and die by fire. They soon invent flamethrowers to burn people standing by them.
The Inquisition was controlled by the Roman Catholic Church- there was both a Roman Inquisition, and a Spanish Variant.
I don't think there are any specific "lessons" to be learnt from the Inquisition.
The Inquisition was a Catholic judicial group that worked to keep people from committing heresy. They were cruel, and inflicted torture on huge numbers of innocent people. The Inquisition was started under Pope Gregory XI in 1232.
To get them to confess to heresy
To get them to confess to heresy
They treated them badly
the Inquisition was about getting the people of Europe (mostly in Spain and Portugal) to be Catholic again and stop the spread of Judaism and Islam.
It was very rare that people were burned in the Holocast. Corpses were burned however, to cover up how many people were murdered.
Strictly speaking, the Spanish Inquisition was designed to persecute Christian heretics, people who were believed to be following Christianity improperly. However, most of the people accused of heresy were former Jews and Muslims who converted to Christian under threat of death. As a result, it is generally oversimplified to say that the Spanish Inquisition targeted JEWS AND MUSLIMS.
Vikings 500 years before Columbus. Columbus did NOT find North America. He landed on an island in 1492 while looking for a water route to India. All but a small fraction of the books and people that would prove this were burned and killed by Christopher Columbus and his men in 1492-1493.
being a "heretic" and/or being a "witch"
To stop people from converting from Catholicism.