ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

ECONOMICS

TRADE EXCHANGE AND INTERDEPENDENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which religion did European conquerors bring to the indigenous people of Latin America?
A
Catholicism
B
Islam
C
Judism
D
Buddhism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Spanish conquerors then began the gradual process of converting the Aztecs to Christianity. The question of some curios-ity was why the Aztecs converted. There were three main theories as to why conversion took place.

Detailed explanation-2: -Such an empowerment clearly meant that along with Spanish law, governance, language, and culture, the Roman Catholic religion, too, would cross from Europe to the Americas and that the king of Spain would engage in the spread of Christianity to the native peoples of the New World.

Detailed explanation-3: -Iberians introduced Roman Catholicism to “Latin America” when Spain and Portugal conquered and colonized their respective New World empires after 1500.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Catholic Church ran over half of the residential schools in Canada. More than 150, 000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were forced to attend the government-funded schools between the 1870s and 1997.

Detailed explanation-5: -For more than three hundred years, the Catholic Church aided the Spanish in their conquest and administration of the Americas. It converted indigenous peoples to Christianity, educated the population, and legitimated Spanish rule.

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