SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NEW FRANCE
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Question
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Explorers
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Missionaries
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Europeans tried to convert them because they thought the natives had no God, but how were they to know that when they took no time to learn about the native culture? It is not safe to make assumptions about someone else’s culture when one has not taken the time to get to know it.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.