Cross-Curricular Connections

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Spanish Inquisition was a brutal court system that imprisoned and tortured people who were suspected of going against the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church. Click on the link below to learn about this dark period in European history.

http://history.howstuffworks.com/european-history/spanish-inquisition.htm

Although the pendulum in the story is used as a device of fear and death, pendulums have also led to important scientific discoveries. Click on the link below to learn about how pendulums function and to what important innovations they have contributed.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/pendulum.aspx