FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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encomienda
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missionaries
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St. Augustine
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Detailed explanation-1: -History has dubbed Puritan missionary Eliot as “the apostle to the Indians” and celebrated him as the founder of the American missionary movement. Many Native Americans and some historians today see him as an agent of cultural genocide. The descendants of those first Christian converts, however, tell a different story.
Detailed explanation-2: -A missionary is a member of a religious group which is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to this classification Christianity, Islam and Buddhism are usually identified as missionary religions, and the rest as non-missionary religions.