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“After Columbus returned from the New World, Isabella claimed the indigenous people as her subjects and ordered that they, too, be converted to Christianity.” (Paragraph 2)

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"After Columbus returned from the New World, Isabella claimed the indigenous people as her subjects and ordered that they, too, be converted to Christianity. Pope Alexander VI supported the queen by declaring the lands that Columbus discovered to be the lawful property of Spain, thereby sanctioning Spanish efforts to colonize the territories and convert the people." (pg.1)

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“...people worshipped many gods, often in the form of agricultural gods representing powerful aspects of nature. Among the more universal deities were rain, sun, and moon gods, the earth mother, and gods of the dead, although important plants or animals were also worshipped, such as the maize god of the Mexicas.” (2).

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“After Columbus returned from the New World, Isabella claimed the indigenous people as her subjects and ordered that they, too, be converted to Christianity.” (Page 1)

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Frustrated by the local populations’ reluctance to accept Christianity, some priests tore down native temples and burned their spiritual artifacts. (3)

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“Isabella claimed the indigenous people as her subjects and ordered that they, too, be converted to Christianity”

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“Frustrated by the local populations’ reluctance to accept Christianity, some priests tore down native temples and burned their spiritual artifacts. Most notably, in 1562, Franciscan friar Diego de Landa burned five thousand Mayan religious images and at least twenty-seven hieroglyphic rolls. Landa went on to stage his own inquisition, in which he tortured over four thousand Indians, 158 of them to death.”(Birth Of The New World)

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“In the New World, where life revolved mainly around the cycles of planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops, people worshipped many gods, often in the form of agricultural gods representing powerful aspects of nature.”

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“In the New World, where life revolved mainly around the cycles of planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops, people worshipped many gods, often in the form of agricultural gods representing powerful aspects of nature.”(Pg. 1)

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“In the New World, where life revolved mainly around the cycles of planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops, people worshipped many gods, often in the form of agricultural gods representing powerful aspects of nature. Among the more universal deities were rain, sun, and moon gods, the earth mother, and gods of the dead, although important plants or animals were also worshipped, such as the maize god of the Mexicas.” (Page 1)

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In the New World, where life revolved mainly around the cycles of planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops, people worshipped many gods, often in the form of agricultural gods representing powerful aspects of nature. (1)

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In some cases, they required the indigenous people to move into new communities, called doctrinas, supervised by the friars. Frustrated by the local populations’ reluctance to accept Christianity, some priests tore down native temples and burned their spiritual artifacts. (Page 3)

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“Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars established churches and schools, conducted mass baptisms, and worked to recruit and educate a native class of priests to spread the Catholic doctrine. In some cases, they required the indigenous people to move into new communities, called doctrinas, supervised by the friars. Frustrated by the local populations’ reluctance to accept Christianity, some priests tore down native temples and burned their spiritual artifacts” (Page 3).

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"Frustrated by the local populations’ reluctance to accept Christianity, some priests tore down native temples and burned their spiritual artifacts." (3)

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"Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars established churches and schools, conducted mass baptisms, and worked to recruit and educate a native class of priests to spread the Catholic doctrine" (Catholicism Meets the New World p3).

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“... New World Catholicism evolved into a religion that integrated aspects of indigenous beliefs into Catholic teachings and that adapted Christian concepts, images, and saints to local traditions.” (Paragraph 11)

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“We have hidden the fact that it is only through threats of being taken captive or killed that the Indians have been brought to embrace the faith and swear obedience to the king.
– Bartolome de Las Casas"

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“Some priests tore down native temples and burned their spiritual artifacts. Most notably, in 1562, Franciscan friar Diego de Landa burned five thousand Mayan religious images and at least twenty-seven hieroglyphic rolls.”

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“ life revolved mainly around the cycles of planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops, people worshipped many gods, often in the form of agricultural gods representing powerful aspects of nature.” (8)

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"Many cultures, including the Mayas and the Incas, considered their rulers divine and tended to regard their ancestors (particularly the founders of their political dynasties) as sacred."

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“In some cases, they required the indigenous people to move into new communities, called doctrinas, supervised by the friars. Frustrated by the local populations’ reluctance to accept Christianity, some priests tore down native temples and burned their spiritual artifacts” (3).

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“...in the Americas, the fusing of European and indigenous traditions was a defining feature of New World Catholicism.” (9)

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"New World Catholicism evolved into a religion that integrated aspects of indigenous beliefs into Catholic teachings and that adapted Christian concepts, images, and saints to local traditions."