FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Detailed explanation-1: -A presidio protected a mission. Presidios were forts that offered safety from unfriendly American Indians. They also helped control the American Indians in the missions. Soldiers from the presidio caught American Indians who ran away from the mission.
Detailed explanation-2: -The government of New Spain settled the northern borderlands of Mexico and present-day Texas with missions, frontier communities, and presidios. Presidios were colonial frontier military settlements intended to secure and defend Spain’s claim to territories occupied by indigenous populations.
Detailed explanation-3: -MISSIONS AND PRESIDIOS OF TEXAS. PRESIDIOS were built by Spain to protect the Missions. People living in the Missions were religious officials such as fathers, monks. Native Texans also lived in the missions and were used as servants.
Detailed explanation-4: -Spain colonized for three reasons: to locate mineral wealth (gold), to convert the Indians to Christianity (God), and to fight French and English efforts (glory).