New World Spansh Inquisition

The Inquisition museum in Cartagena, Columbia shows some of the brutality that took place there in the Middle Ages. Roman Catholics wanted to preserve the Church doctrine, which required that all people who didn't follow it were tortured and killed.

In the early 16th century the kings of Portugal and Spain ordered the murder of all Jewish people and others who did not convert, including many of the native people of the region.

Even those Jews who did convert (called conversos) were tortured with devices such as the one illustrated above.