One issue with the video: Isabella II herself couldn't have ended the Inquisition in 1834, since she was just 4 years old at the time. Maybe her mom, the Queen regent signed off on it.

Recently, a group of Catholic Mexican decendents with interesting and unusual religious practices was studied. Turns out that they were descendents of Spanish conversos who were keeping alive some of their Jewish traditions long past the point at which the danger of discovery was over. And long past the time they knew the origins of the practices.

I did not expect the Spanish Inquisition...to have lasted so long. Three and a half centuries!

Fun fact: for everyone who does an actual research, there were very few deaths in the Spanish inquisition compared to Switzerland or Germany

I wasn’t expecting this

Fellow Prisoner: So what are you here for? Me: I did laundry on a Saturday Everyone: This guy is crazy!!

3,000 people were "executed" in Spain across the entirety of the centuries of the Inquisition. That's it. Of the 3,000 "executed" 1,500 were "executed in effigy." That is, they built up a human-sized doll, and killed the doll, not the person, then expelled them from the country. That's it. That's the horror/terror of the Inquisition.

One part that isn't mentioned is that there was an Inquisition in Portugal too... and it was worse. So worse that when a concerned Portugese man went to the Pope to tell what had been going on, the Pope told Portugal to reign in the inquisition.

I can only imagine all the "nobody expects the spanish inquisition" jokes there are gonna be.

When the comment section is just "I didn't expect that": _I'm so proud of this community_

Spanish Inquisition was the mildest of Europe. Just the French Revolution caused more death penalties that the Spanish Inquisition in all its existence.

The Spanish Inquisition came after and was much milder than other countries' inquisitions. And people did expect the Spanish Inquisition, they gave a 30 day notice beforehand

fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, nice red uniforms

Ted Ed should have a vocabulary word list at the end of every video containing the uncommon vernacular from the video

Fun facts about the inquisition that they didn't tell you in the video: Most of the people accused were convinced of having mistaken beliefs for which a priest simply corrected them. Inquisitions are a basic element of Christianity, deemed necessary to root out false beliefs before they became wide spread. Clergy were not present during torture, torture devices that would kill or permanently scared were forbidden, a doctor was always present and people knew that it was ineffective, so they didn't want to use it. Spain at that time wasn't as diverse as presented, infact being majority Christian already. Medieval inquisitions were a reaction to a bloody conflict between Christians and the Catharists People actually wanted worse punishments for those convicted.

Christianity went from: "We're being prosecuted, so we don't celebrate publicly" To "We're celebrating publicly and persecuting heretics". Truly one of the biggest table flips in history. (Don't flame me, I'm a Christian too lmao. It's just that the belief isn't violent, It's the people who issue it.)

Everyone here: "This was unexpected"

I’m going to be honest, a torture rate of 1/3rd is lower then most people would probably think with the Spanish Inquisition

Saying Spain did not experience Renaissance or the Separation of powers at min 4:29 is BS... It's not knowing about Spain or it's history and culture AT ALL. Spain was a complete participant of the iRenaissance (Velazquez, el Greco, Becket, Cervantes.... all contributed to it), and the oldest Parlament in the world is in the Kingdom of Leon, a literal separation of powers. But by the Catholic Monarchs onwards Spain, like most European countries, experienced the same separation of powers. Isolation of Spain began after Napoleon not before.

I do still find myself amazed at how large the inquisition loomed in the minds of English-language writers like Twain and Poe, as late as the 19th century.

Spanish inquisition : starts* Everybody : Surprised Pikachu face

I didn't expect Ted Ed to make a video about the Spanish inquisition.

I love how they talk like as if the Conquests of Spain and Constantinople or the Invasion of Greece by Suliman and etc didn't happen

The Islamic conquest of Iberian Peninsula is equally brutal

I did not expect the Spanish Inquisition, but I expected the memes

The Bible says that we shall not kill anyone,. Yet, that was exactly the thing those guys were doing

Whenever I lend my printer that was made in Spain to my friends, they are always surprised at the clarity. No one expects the Spanish ink precision.

Uhh…. The Muslims literally invaded Spain.

A Truly unexpected video

You may not expect the spanish Inquisition, BUT one thing u may not expect either is that this is quite biased. Remember! The Inquisition was NOT exclusive to Spain. The spanish Inquisition wasn't even the harshest Inquisition of them all (you should see what the folks in Germany and England did, there the burning and witch hunting was a lot more common) although it had some particularities, mainly relating to burocratic procedures If I recall properly. Spain had many enemies back then, and they were good with propaganda. That's why most common folk only remember the Spanish Inquisition and not the maleum maleficarum or the work of Matthew Hopkins

Henry Kamen has a great book on The Spanish Inquisition, dispels a lot of myths

Once again England creating myths about Spain

No body expected the Spanish Inquisition but everyone expected the Monthy Phyton fandome in the comments section.

More people have been killed just during the night of Saint Bartholomew than during the whole Spanish Inquisition, which lasted for centuries. Not to mention the torture methods used during that time weren’t especially different than the common medieval punishments.

0:31 Hey! That's My Name!

Almost every comment in a few hours of the upload: "I did not expect that." Edit: It has been like one minute and I am already seeing this

*I must say, I didn't expect the unexpected comments and memes about the unexpected Spanish Inquisition. This is all unexpected*

It ended in 1834? That's like... recent

How many “witches” were burned/killed in Protestant England or Germany or Us colonies? Ten times more than the Spanish Inquisition ever did! Viva Espana y el Rey!! 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 ❤️

You oddly forgot to mention that confession under torture wasn’t considered proof enough and that they actually had to have proof, plus if the innocent party was wrongly accused the accuser was punished

jews muslims and christians used to live together in harmony, then everything changed when the catholic church attacked. unexpectedly.

boy oh boy, I see Jesus all over this. He NEVER commanded his followers to do these hateful things...

It worked and it is what was needed to restore Spain. Before you all complain, this practice still exists and it is practiced most by the Islamic religion. Sharia police ring a bell? How about mercy killings? They follow essentially the same beliefs, processes and practices in their home countries as the Spanish Inquisition. You have people secretly alerting authorities, authorities with no uniforms door knocking, unfair trails and biased/partisan legal system. That is how they keep other religions out and why their culture, way of thinking is essentially untouched while that of the West has been eroded. This practice is what is needed to restore and what is needed to maintain Europe if there is such a unity in the will and unity in the preservation of Europe that was just in the last couple of centuries ago.

I can't help but feel sorry for those innocent souls during those times.

I'm Spanish, and In Córdoba and Toledo, are interesting museums about that topic.

All of my Hispanic family are Catholics and I'm sharing this video

Both religious intolerance and torture were common practices all across Europe, not only in Spain. There are plenty of videos about the myth of the Spanish Inquisition and all the propaganda and fabrication about it.

"friends turned in friends, neighbors accused neighbors": all too familiar for the Chinese people during the Cultural Revolution, from the fervour of the Red Guards.

Under canonical law, only Catholics could be judged by the inquisition. This judgement would occur under the normal circumstances of judgement, where both the accuser and the accused would have to face each other (no anonymity) in trial, with evidence to support the accusation. People who then formally renounced their faith would be excommunicated, while repenting Catholics would be given confession and penance. It was only unrelenting Catholics who could be legally punished beyond excommunication. Anything that happened outside these bounds is analogous to what our justice system today experiences through corruption. Simply listing a few facts in this format does very little to provide the necessary context to understand it completely. Also, Spain suffered from a compete economic collapse due to inflation caused by the large quantities of gold imported from the colonies. Saying that they missed out on the enlightenment because of the inquisition is short sighted and inaccurate. It also assumes that "enlightenment" is a process by which a society progresses, but it was just a philosophical movement. Spain had their own cultural Revolution throughout the Golden Centuries (as they are known in Spanish history). I'm pretty disappointed a video like this was produced by Ted.

You skip that, by catholic doctrine, natives in the americas were protected by the inquisition and missionaries, and treated far better than any other colonial power. And that the Inquisition varied depending on the reforms they had, including being one of the first to drop confession by torture.

The fact that this video quotes an atheist who hates the church less than a second in tells me all that I need to know about this video...

Many historians believe that the inquisition was why Spain fell from grace as an European super power. England, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France, and Portugal all embraced science and technology while it was illegal in Spain. I am glad that this lesson didn't divulge too much into the torture because that is what I thought it was going to be about. I always like your lessons Ted, keep it up.

The Holy Inquisition had been around since the Crusades; the ones in which all of Christendom participated. So it didn't pop into being in 1478, not was it established in all Spanish kingdoms as the narrator incorrectly states. It was Isabel; she was not Italian, so her proper name was not Isabella. It was often spelled as Ysabel as can be readily seen on documents and even the coat of arms of Puerto Rico. The Holy inquisition was first established in America and had its administrative centre in Cartagena de Indias and it was tasked with monitoring Europeans and enslaved Africans and any converted indigenous people; it was not sent to América to prosecute indigenous people because they were classified as soon-to-be Christians and therefore were not to be held responsible for matters of faith. Contrary to the narrator's spurious claim, the inquisition in the Spanish kingdoms had various categories of falling out grace with the church. It differentiated between people who practiced witchcraft and people prepared and sold spells - the latter most often the purview of widows and older women. The church viewed as mostly harmless within the bounds of what people used it; attract love, fortune, etc. There was no entering in contract with Satan or selling their soul. By church law a physician had to be present whenever torture was undertaken - there are museums all over Europe displaying torture devices, so you cannot sanely claim that it was solely used by the Spanish monarchy or the church; two separate entities with mandates that did not overlap. The narrator revels in the expulsion of 1492 while blithely ignoring other kingdoms' histories of expulsions of Jews: England 1290 France 1306, 1321 and 1394. German principalities and Italian states 14th and 16th centuries; Hungary 1394; Austria 1421; Lithuania 1445 and 1495; Portugal 1497; Bohemia and Moravia in 1744. It is a matter of record that more women were accused and burned at the stake in German Europe than all the people similarly punished in Spanish kingdoms during the same era. The narrator tosses out a vague number of death attributed to the inquisition while ignoring the fact that fatalities in England exceeded her highest number; somewhere in the vicinity of 35,000 due to infighting on that island. I don't expect to change the thinking of people who have already made up their minds, or better stated had their minds made up for them, but I couldn't leave this drivel unchallenged.

What is surprising is that the video avoids mentioning that the most victims were Andalusian Muslims or Spaniards? Isabella and Ferdinand gave security to the Jews and Muslims after entering Cordoba, but they broke the agreement, as was the custom of the Catholic kings at that time.

NO ONE EVER EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION Edit: are you telling me they did expect the inquisition

You thought this was a Ted-Ed video but it was us! The Spanish Inquisition! No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Isabella II didn’t sign the decree, it was her mother Queen Maria Cristina de Borbon, who acted as regent to the then-infant Isabella II.

Anyone else binge watching these? These videos and After Skool are my favorite to watch.

"Grand Inquisitor" is kinda funny in terms of name choice cus Ezra is a Hebrew name

You forgot to say that in 7 centuries, Spanish Inquisition delivered less death sentences than US courts did between 1976 and 2000, or less than Pakistan, Egypt, China or Algeria... did in a just few decades in recent times. You have to look to serious and confirmed estimates (from the main historians/specialists like Botromeo). The Tribunal of the Holy Office was mainly a court of appeal, for people who were already sentenced, and was far less severe than civil courts. It was most of the time a way to get these sentences reduced. Long story short: KZfaq infographic shows are entertaining, but have any reliable content.

Long live Spain, the King and the holy Roman Catholic Church! From a Mexican and Native American, in California! 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 ❤️ ⛪️

They were also enslaved and sent to Angola, Sao Tome, and Principe and Cape Verde) This is why they are Portugese speaking African countries.

The Inquisition started in 12th-century France to combat religious dissent, particularly among the Cathars and the Waldensians. The inquisitorial courts from this time until the mid-15th century are together known as the Medieval Inquisition. Other groups investigated during the Medieval Inquisition, which primarily took place in France and Italy, including the Spiritual Franciscans, the Hussites (followers of Jan Hus), and the Beguines. (Wikipedia)

These people should make a video on Goa Inquisition that took place in India.

The Holy Office was a repressive apparatus that caused a brutal delay in Spain, but its history is dotted with myths in a Europe where religious persecution was even more cruel. Compared to the 25,000 women burned at the stake as witches in Germany, to the tens of thousands hanged and then (while still breathing) dismembered in the England of Elizabeth I, it is well documented that during the three hundred years that the Spanish inquisition lasted they were 3000 sentenced to death. (Henry Kamen). The Spanish inquisitors are represented in films and novels as sadistic fanatics who made Spain the most backward territory in Europe and burned an endless number of Jews, witches, Muslims and especially Protestants. It is considered the most terrible and merciless episode of the Catholic Church. Not in vain, the Holy Office was a mechanism inherent to the Modern Age that, unlike the medieval inquisition, responded directly to royal authority, was used as an organ of social control and did not accept as valid the testimonies obtained by torture. And although the number of deaths caused by the activity of the Holy Office in the Iberian Peninsula was much lower than that produced by the religious wars, which bled France, Germany or England during the 16th and 17th centuries, in the popular imagination they are the Spaniards were the only ones who earned the reputation of bloodthirsty radicals.

To this day you still find people in the region with last names like Matamoros (killer of Moors) and Matajudios (killer of Jews).

Dark is human history, no wonder our present isn't shining

Monty Python references never gets old.

"Thou shalt not kill" > The region - believers Inquisition: So anyways, we started our questionable actions

I recently discovered that my ancestors fled from Spain to Portugal to escape the inquisition. They were jewish, but were forced to convert to catholicism.

This Inquisition was carried to Goa, India by the Portuguese as well, targeting Jews and native converts to Catholicism.

3:55 in Spain we have a common expression about the San Benito, it is "cargar con el Sanbenito" which means to carry the blame of something that you haven't done

No one is surprised that an American channel speaks badly of Spain, knowing that your ancestors are the English and that England was and is one of Spain's greatest enemies. Surely you think that my vision is biased because I am Spanish and that everything I am going to say I say from a patriotic feeling. However, the history of Spain is very confusing and veryyyyyy long. In many cases, full of bloody conflicts and ethnic and religious purges. However, the Holy Inquisition is not one of them. To introduce you a little, at that time, Spain and Portugal inherited the Muslim advances and had their most prosperous centuries, in which they accessed the Asian trade markets and acquired, for example, the necessary instruments to be able to undertake great journeys maritime, such as reaching India bordering Africa, reaching America or going around the world. All this progress leads to the emergence of a wave of illustrious writers such as Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote and many others who shape Spanish society into a cultured and diverse society for the time. As the video says, in Spanish society there were many ethnicities, religions and cultures, for example, the Arabs brought with them inhabitants from all over the world, sub-Saharans, Indians, Chinese, Jews and of course, one of the ethnicities that had the greatest impact left in Spanish society and folklore, the gypsies who fled from persecution around the world. For most of the time, there were no problems, the only thing that changed was who was king in the region you lived in. Until the modern era approaches and tensions begin to multiply. That is why after revolts, wars and much violence, kings use religion as a way to unify society. Hence its name from Catholic kings. These 2 kings are the most influential European kings in history. Its footprint is seen on all continents. Thanks to them, the rights of the indigenous American populations were recognized as future Christians and they would not be exterminated as happened in your country. The Inquisition was in charge of checking if the new converts were really faithful to the religion and after verifying that the majority acted, the kings then decided to gradually expel the non-faithful ethnic groups. However, in other regions of Europe such as Holland, France, England or Austria, the Inquisition dedicated itself to killing thousands and thousands of infidels, who had to escape to other places in the world such as, for example, the first pilgrims who came to United States and Canada. If you are going to tell a story about a country you don't know, you should inform yourself and give an objective vision of history.

I sometimes wonder how modern-day catholics feel holding the burden of the atrocities their ancestors did.

"And here's the Spanish Inquisition hiding behind the tool shed!" "Well, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition!" Ted: *"NO-ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!"*

Embrace the separation of church and state? Like in England where the head of state is the king or queen?

Spain had 7 centuries of Islamic rule, not only that they have Arabic words in their language. The syncretism is so deeply embeded, which is why the inquisition was so scary, 7 centuries of living together must influence something upon the other.

If you're ever wondering why Spain and Portugal are a 100% Catholic with no 'indigenous' Jewish, Muslim and none-Catholic minorities; This video is the answer.

"The Inquisition quickly turned its attention to ridding the region of people who were not part of the Catholic Church" The Inquisition only dealt with people that were part of the Catholic Church. Those who were not part of the Catholic Church were outside of its jurisdiction.

It is anachronistic to judge people in those times. Religious persecution is prevalent in countries wether they are Catholic or Protestant, Christian or Muslim. If the Inquisition hamper Spain's progress, then why did the Spanish Golden Age occur during the period of the Inquisition?

Absolutely insane that the Spanish authorities didn’t see nursing and exiling people as sinful.

It reminded me what is being practiced NOW in Turkey by Erdogan regime. Even worse, they dont allow them to leave but condemn them to annihilation.

I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition to be in Ted-Ed.

I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody ever does.

The Inquisition wasn’t as violent as you think. It’s a misconception

Imagine how diverse Spain would be if this part of history didn't happen

Animation 9/10, Historical accuracy 1/10, Analysis -2/10. Hald of the video is not even about the inquisition but the Spanish church. Seeing Umberto Eco at the beginning convinced me that this movie was made to shock not to educate. Also talking about inquisition without mentioning the one from middle ages....

I mean we shouldn’t play down what happened in Spain but there were more people killed, expelled and tortured just during the fall of Constantinople than in 300 Years of Spanish Inquisition.

I'm a catholic, and I clicked on this video expecting to see hundreds of comments talking about how horrible the catholic church is, but I didn't see a single one. I'm happy knowing that people no longer believe that we are archaic and frightening and that we can be accepted as Christian brothers and sisters as well!

When Islam was in power, people were not forced to immediately convert to Islam, they were still free to worship according to their belief, and never treated others like what they had done to "morisco"

Accodrding yo Kamen, it's between 3000 and 9000 the number of people executed by the Inquisition. Far away from the mucho higher number of St Bartholomews night. Not to mention than the Inquisition was created in Langedoc (France) several centuries before the Spanish

Jesus: Ok so I want all of you to love one another, follow my teachings and spread kindness, love and peace. *1400 years later* Spanish Inquisitor : DIE IN JESUS' NAME HERETIC!

As a Catholic, I can't help but wonder how much of people's interest in the Spanish Inquisition is motivated by anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish sentiments. There are so many atrocities in human history and so much horrific carnage that dwarfs these numbers. This episode definitely gets a disproportionate amount of press.

Even Bentham demystified the supposed cruelty of the Spanish Inquisition in his book: The Panopticon. He went so far as to affirm that never had an institution of justice been more vilified by being so permissive. Look for it.

LOOK AT THE MADNESS THAT OCCURES IN EUROPE FROM TIME TO TIME.

La leyenda negra española. It was awful, but it wasnt the thing described on the vid. As always, it is way more complex.

Yet Spanish historian apologist claimed they never hurt their colonies. (Philippines, Mexico, etc.) Me an intellectual: Laughs in Spanish Inquisition.

crazy how nobody expected this to happen

Christianity and Islam are the two most most repressive religions, this is why we like secularism

The cross has always been drenched in blood by the churches, both Catholic & Protestant.