It neglect to mention that the Spanish Inquisition was the mop up job that finished driving the Moslems out of Spain. The Jews in Spain ended up on the recieving end of that mess because they sided with the Moslems in that particular conflict.
I did not know that.
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There must have been a sizable diaspora of the Jewish people from Spain about that time. A number of them fled to Germany and Ireland, and from there to the New World, to avoid persecution.
There is some evidence that the Mellungeon people of Appalachia are descended from these Mediterranean Jewish (Sephardic) people (DNA studies).
You're not supposed to mention this. It conflicts with what everyone has been taught to be true. Try not to mention the fact that the Inquisition was responsible for about 5,000 executions and that many defendants preferred the judicially rational procedures of the Inquisition to the secular trial processes of those days.