FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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set up missions and convert Indians to cannibals.
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set up schools and convert Indians to farmers.
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set up colonies and convert Indians to Christianity.
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set up missions and convert Indians to Christianity.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1769, the Spanish king ordered land and sea expeditions to depart from Mexico to California. He also sent military troops and Franciscan missionaries to the new land. Franciscan priest Father Junipero Serra founded the first mission in 1769.
Detailed explanation-2: -They believed that they were given the divine right and responsibility of Christianizing as many parts of the world as possible. Missionaries themselves were motivated by the desire to construct the Americas as the site of pure Christianity.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was an unhappy circumstance in which the Aztecs were defeated by Hernan Cortes, leader of the invasion of the Aztec empire, and his men. 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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout the colonial period, the missions Spain established would serve several objectives. The first would be to convert natives to Christianity.
Detailed explanation-5: -In many cases, the Spanish missionaries led the settlement and early government of these remote outposts. Spanish missionaries were people who were sent by the Roman Catholic Church and the Spanish royal authorities to other lands to convert people to Christianity.