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1769-1848

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I think it was a bad Idea for the Europeans to bring Indians into the missions because they should've known that they would all be killed by the diseases that the Europeans carried. I think what they missed out on was becoming allies with the Indians and do trades.

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By the late 1700s, 20,000 Indians lived in Alta California at the missions the Indians are forced to give up their old religious beliefs and start being to become Christians. One of the most serious things at the missions was disease because Indians aren't used to the diseases that Europeans had they could be deadly sometimes.

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A mission was made for protecting Spanish land. Indians are key for missions because they worked for the missions. Priests taught Indians about Christianity but some Indians didn't like life in the missions and decided to runaway and if they got caught they might be punished. They taught Indians new skills like caring for animals such as Horses, Sheep , Chickens, and Goats.

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Pueblos are villages that farm so they can supply the food and water for the soldiers in the presidios. There were plazas which is an open square that people can gather in. In 1781 a group of 44 settlers got together and built a pueblo that would later be known as Los Angeles.
In 1777 the first Pueblo is settled in San Jos'e de Guadalupe. In 1823 the last mission was founded and El Camino Real was completed.

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Presidios were little forts that had soldiers and houses for the generals and a bastion for defense is where the soldiers have protection to fight. Also there was a chapel so people who had religious beliefs could go to church. Presidios were there so that pain could make sure they kept control of Alta California even though they had missions.the Indians were took in to missions to be taught to be Christians and teach them European ways. You will hear more about this in Mission Life.

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The El Camino Real is a very popular road that connects all the missions from San Diego in the south to San Francisco in the north. They are located by a day's horseback ride. In 1776 the most north of all the presidios was built in the mouth of San Francisco bay. In 1823 the last of 21 missions is founded in Sonoma.

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In 1769 Franciscan priests forced Indians to build 21 missions from San Diego, to Sonoma they were both just a day's travel to El Camino Real.