WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The primary motives for these voyages of discovery were financial profit and the creation of large empires. The church saw the voyages as an opportunity to bring Christianity to new converts in distant lands. Thus, priests and monks often accompanied explorers and conquerors as they sailed to America, Africa, and Asia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Christianity in Asia has its roots in the very inception of Christianity, which originated from the life and teachings of Jesus in 1st-century Roman Judea. Christianity then spread through the missionary work of his apostles, first in the Levant and taking roots in the major cities such as Jerusalem and Antioch.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Christian missionaries spread Christianity in India and played a significant role in promoting language, literature, and art. The missionaries in order to understand and be understood by the Indian people brought out grammars and dictionaries of the Indian languages.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Christian missionaries of different missionary societies made a tremendous contribution to education in South Africa. Their arrival in South Africa was aimed particularly at spreading the Word of God. They therefore set about to achieve this through introduction of formal education among the Batswana people.

Detailed explanation-5: -Roman Catholicism was the official religion of Spain, so Spanish explorers and soldiers, called conquistadors, sought to spread Catholicism throughout their colonies, in addition to accumulating wealth and power.