ECONOMICS
INCENTIVES
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Question
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Desert traders spread Islam along trade routes.
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Missionaries spread Christianity to the natives of the New World.
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Missionaries spread Buddhism into China.
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New ideas spread down the Silk Road.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Missionaries worked in schools to convert Native Americans to Christianity and also how to farm and adopt other European ways. Some missions also served as posts where explorers set out on the quest for riches. Many claimed larger areas of land around them to farm and raise animals.
Detailed explanation-2: -Spiritual motivations also justified European conquests of foreign lands. The Catholic Church set up Christian missions to convert indigenous people to the Catholic faith. At the same time, and often hand-in-hand, Catholic nations began setting up colonies for political and economic profit in these foreign lands.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Jesuits were zealous missionaries who played a major role in evangelizing the world during the Age of Exploration. They had a strong presence throughout the Americas. Francis Xavier became one of the earliest Christian missionaries to reach the Far East.
Detailed explanation-4: -Motives for the Age of Exploration, simply stated, were glory, gold, and God. That is, conquerors ventured to the New World as service for their country, with the hopes of gaining personal power or wealth, and to spread Christianity-primarily Catholicism-to the sullen, pagan peoples of the Americas.
Detailed explanation-5: -First, they tried to use it as a moral justification for expansion and as a means of claiming legitimate authority over foreign territory. Second, the elite attempted to use religion to exert control over the people-including Natives, Africans, and Europeans-living on newly discovered lands.