SSC
WORLD HISTORY
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
When the priests came from Europe to the New World they changed the Native Americans ____ by making an effort to convert them to Christianity.
|
|
voyages
|
|
|
clothing
|
|
|
culture
|
|
|
immunity
|
Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Much of the expressed goals of the spread of Catholicism was to bring salvation to the souls of the indigenous peoples. The Church and the Crown alike viewed the role and presence of the Church in the Americas as a buffer against the corrupt encomenderos and other European settlers.
Detailed explanation-2: -They established a missionary program to eliminate the religious practices and beliefs of the Pueblo and to teach them Christianity and European ways. The Pueblos were trained from childhood to cooperate and to adapt to social pressure. Thus, for decades they did not outwardly resist the missionaries.
There is 1 question to complete.