Packet 9: Tossup 11

A 2025 microhistory by Toby Green analyzes this institution’s records of a wealthy trader whom a Papel king defended after she patronized djabakós in Cacheu (“ka-SHAY-oo”). This institution ceremonially exhumed an ethnobotanist who tended to Burhan Nizam Shah I before he wrote his Colloquies on “simples and drugs.” This institution’s archives record “Mandiga pouches,” the life of Rosa Egipcíaca (“eh-zheep-SEE-ah-kuh”), and brotherhoods of the Cult of the Holy Spirit. The Decades of Asia describes how a branch of this institution that forbade the Konkani language destroyed a tooth from the Jaffna Kingdom. After this institution was begun in 1536 at the request of John III, it responded to the complaints of Francis Xavier by forming a branch in Goa to target migrated marranos. (-5[1])For 10 points, what institution with Roman and Spanish counterparts carried out autos-da-fé in Lisbon? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Portuguese Inquisition [or Inquisição Portuguesa; or General Council of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Portugal; or Conselho Geral do Santo Ofício da Inquisição; accept the Inquisition in the Portuguese Empire; accept Goa Inquisition or Inquisição de Goa; prompt on the Inquisition by asking “in which empire?”; prompt on Portugal, Portuguese (Colonial) Empire, or Império (Colonial) Português; reject “Spanish Inquisition”; reject “Catholic Church” or “Holy See”] (The first two lines refer to The Heretic of Cacheu and Garcia de Orta.)
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