Edited sentence: His devotion to Catholicism influenced his reliance on the autos de fe and the brutality of his reign.It is thought that Torquemada urged such a drastic ruling because he thought it would encourage conversion.The alternative to torture or expulsion had been conversion to Catholicism; an option he hoped many would choose.The population of Jews and Arabs from Spain was the expulsion of the most economically profitable class at the time.While the Spanish monarchs confiscated both land and money from those they exiled, they suffered much more in the aftermath of the expulsion