Challenges to the Church

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Challenges to the Church

• 18.5
• Chapter 18
• Section 5

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The Church Reacts

• 1100 some Christians began to question the
  church
• Church wanted money and land not focused on God.
• Started to preach their own ideas
• Heresy- religious ideas that oppose accepted
  church teachings
• People called heretics
• Heretics faced trail and jail or death

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Christians fight Moors

• Late 900s Muslim power had weakened
• 1002 Muslim government fell
• Reconquista- Christian efforts to retake Spain
  from the Moors

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• 1085 Castile won victory against the Moors
• Inspired other Christian kingdoms
• Aragon and Portugal
• Christians won victory after victory
• By the 1250s, Christian armies had pushed the
  Moors out of Europe
• Except for Granada

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Rise of Portugal and Spain

• Victorious over the Moors, Portugal and Spain
  grew stronger
• Portugal became independent
• Aragon and Castile united Spain
• King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
• 1492 conquered Granada
• Wanted to make Spain an all Catholic country
• Required all Jews to convert to Christianity
• Few years later banned Islam
• ALL of Spain is Christian

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Spanish Inquisition

• An organization of priests that looked for and
  punished anyone in Spain suspected of secretly
  practicing their old religion.
• Heretics, Jews, Muslims
• Later spread to Portugal
• Total people punished
• Spain 2,000 died
• Portugal 1,400 died

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Jew Discrimination

• Occurred all over Europe
• 1290- England
• 1306 and 1394- France
• Christians believed Jews caused Jesus death
• Must be punished
• Holy Roman Empire believed Jews caused the Black
  Death

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