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missionaries
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most missionaries who took off for the new lands saw themselves as following in the steps of the Apostles, risking their life and security to bring souls to Christ.
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Conquistadors
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Hernando Cortes’ small group of soldiers.
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Portugal
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Portugal and Spain were the two greatest exploring nations
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Spain
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Portugal and Spain were the two greatest exploring nations
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Control vs. convert
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The church became an agent of the state, focusing more on controlling the native peoples than on spreading the Gospel.
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Sophisticated native civilizations
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The Mayas of Mexico and Guatemala; the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru.
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Explorers and gold
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Cortes’ and his troops were supposed to banter gold, but instead, Cortes’ decided to take the gold and Mexico with it.
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Reduced native populations
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By the end of the 1500’s after only 100 years of contact, the indigenous peoples, or native populations, of Mexico and Central America were reduced 10% of what they had been before Columbus arrived
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Ordinations of natives
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Indians were not ordained as priests for almost 300 years, because the king of Spain forbade it.
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Native clergy and colonial rule
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The friars were frequently the Indians main defenders.
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Guadalupe and native value
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Virgin of Guadalupe
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De las Casas and injustice
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De las Casas defended Indians of injustice.
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Expelled Jesuits
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Greedy colonizers expelled them out of South America.
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Hindu openness
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Robert de Nobili adopted dress of Hindu Brahman
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200 years of Japanese Christians
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Xavier had helped spread Christianity in Japan.
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first missionaries in China
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Matteo Ricci
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Hernando Cortes
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destroyed Mayan civilization
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Francisco Pizarro
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destroyed Aztec civilization
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Juan Diego
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saw the Virgin Mary on a hill and a church was built there
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David Livingstone
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Scottish Protestant missionary, who charted corses into the continent in the mid 1800’s.
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Bartholome de Las Casas
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Friar who was a defender to the Indians.
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Alexander de Rhodes
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French Jesuit who worked in Southeast Asia where Buddhism was predominant.
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Robert de Nobili
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Jesuit in India who adopted the culture of India.
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Francis Xavier
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Spanish Jesuit who was a driving force for the spreading of the Gospel in India.
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Matteo Ricci
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Italian Jesuit who was actually able to gain entry into China.
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