FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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increased the size of its territory
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found gold
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spread the Catholic faith with missions
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built palaces for American Indian chiefs
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Detailed explanation-1: -Spanish missionaries carried Catholicism to the New World and the Philippines, establishing various missions in the newly colonized lands. The missions served as a base for both administering colonies as well as spreading Christianity.
Detailed explanation-2: -The missions served as agencies of the Church and State to spread the faith to natives and also to pacify them for the State’s aims.
Detailed explanation-3: -Spanish missions were. religious communities in North America. They were set up by missionaries from Spain during the 1500s to the 1800s. Missionaries are people who try to spread their religion. The Spanish missionaries wanted to get Native Americans to practice Roman Catholicism (a branch of Christianity).
Detailed explanation-4: -Missionaries themselves were motivated by the desire to construct the Americas as the site of pure Christianity. Many clergy ventured to the Americas to preach what they felt was a purer form of Christianity, and to redeem the souls of the indigenous peoples.