In Part I of CHILDREN OF THE INQUISITION we re-examine the long-hidden history of the families who were forced to convert or flee during the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions. A diverse cast of storytellers descended from the victims of the Inquisition and expert historians trace the arrival of Jewish traders to Iberia hundreds of years before Christ, the Muslim conquest of Iberia in the 700s, the centuries of reconquest by Christian kingdoms; and the Golden Age of Spain, the Convivencia when Muslims, Christians and Jews lived in relative harmony. Part 1 ends in August 1492 when Columbus' ships, seeking the riches of the East, set sail at the same time and same place as the Jews, seeking a safe haven from the fires of the inquisition. Part II reveals how their migrations literally changed the world.