Western Civilization I / Unit 17 WC1 1607 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Philip II: Moriscos, Conversos, and the Defender of the Faith
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The idea
Philip II, fifteen fifty-six to ninety-eight, Charles V's son, saw himself as Catholicism's defender and persecuted suspected non-Catholics: Moriscos, converted Muslims whose children were taken for Catholic schooling, and Conversos, converted Jews tried by the Spanish Inquisition.
In practice
Control at home, trouble abroad in the Netherlands.
Where people slip
Tyrannical is the anchor's word, attributed. The persecution is the record.
Your place on the trail
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