The Mexican Inquisition was the extension of the Spanish Inquisition to Mexico, in 1571. The Spanish Inquisition started and was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile to maintain Generally considered less harsh than its Spanish counterpart, the inquisition in Mexico concerned itself with people accused of heresy, solicitation, blasphemy, and bigamy among other religious crimes. Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief especially a religion that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief In the United States, solicitation is a Crime; it is an Inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or something else of value in order to Blasphemy is the disrespectful use of the name of one or more gods. The term polygamy (a Greek word meaning "the practice of multiple marriage" is used in related ways in Social anthropology, Sociobiology, and Immigration restrictions against newly converted Christians from the Jewish faith were imposed after conversos or New Christians were found to be emigrating from Spain to the New World in large numbers. Conversos ( Spanish and Portuguese for "a convert" from Latin conversus, "converted turned around" and its feminine form For other uses see New Christian (Swedenborgian. New Christian ( Spanish: cristianos nuevos; Portuguese, These restrictions were lifted only later in the Northern frontier, which was beset by native resistance in the province of Nuevo Leon. Nuevo León ( Spanish for "New León " after the former kingdom in Spain) is a state located in northeastern Mexico. The Mexican Inquisition was directed primarily at Protestants, Native American "heretics", and occasional relapsed Jews of converso background.
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