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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)

"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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“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."

“The Taínos, the first people Columbus encountered in the Caribbean, had complex hierarchical religious, political and social systems.”

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“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.”
“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. The Mayas also believed their rulers could communicate with the underworld, while the Incas were a theocratic monarchy, with the emperor both secular and divine and responsible for all legislative, judicial, executive, and religious power throughout the empire.”

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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.”

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“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. Over the next century, as Spanish conquistadors subdued the indigenous populations, wave after wave of Catholic missionaries flooded the Americas to carry out Spain’s mandate. Unfortunately for the Spanish, the people of the New World had their own deeply held beliefs.” (The Birth of a New Religion by: Shannon M. Hannon, pg. 1)

"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. Most notably, in 1562, Franciscan friar Diego de Landa burned five thousand Mayan religious images and at least twenty-seven hieroglyphic rolls. "(pg.3)

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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)

“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.” (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.”

“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.”

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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).

“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. Over the next century, as Spanish conquistadors subdued the indigenous populations, wave after wave of Catholic missionaries flooded the Americas to carry out Spain’s mandate” (1).

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“Based in part on her belief that Jews, Muslims, and other non believers had to be converted to Christianity, the Queen sanctioned the Spanish Inquisition and, by 1499, began a program of forced baptisms among the Muslim population. Within three years, all Muslims in Granada who had not converted to Christianity were ordered out of the city, just as the Jews had been

in 1492.”

“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.”

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“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.”

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“Religion touched on almost every aspect of the lives of people in the New World, many of whom worshipped at shrines and holy places and built huge temples and pyramids were religious rituals were conducted... Average Mexicas would have had little in their homes except sleeping mats, a hearth, and a shrine with a figure of a god” (2).

“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. The Mayas also believed their rulers could communicate with the underworld, while the Incas were a theocratic monarchy, with the emperor both secular and divine and responsible for all legislative, judicial, executive, and religious power throughout the empire. ” (2).

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“Within three years, all Muslims in Granada who had not converted to Christianity were ordered out of the city, just as the Jews had been in 1492.” (pg. 1)

“After Columbus returned from the New World, Isabella claimed the indigenous people as her subjects and ordered that they, too, be converted to Christianity.” (pg. 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.” page 3 paragraph 1.
“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.” page 3 paragraph 3.

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“The Mexicas in Mesoamerica, one of the most powerful cultures in 1492, had deities for every profession and for all common foods, and their priests served at least 200 major deities.”
"Incan, Mayan, and Mexica priests performed ritual human and animal sacrifices that took place during religious ceremonies, although the Incas and Mayas conducted sacrifices only during times of crisis or on special occasions.”

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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.”

"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."

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“but 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.”

"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."

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“They honored two primary deities: a
supreme god or creator, Yúcahu, the lord of cassava and the sea; and a fertility goddess, Atabey, the goddess of fresh water. Lesser deities, including the spirits of ancestors, were believed to live in trees, rocks, and elsewhere.” (pg. 2)

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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)

“ 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.”

(Catholicism Meets the New World, page 3)

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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.” (pg. 3)

"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.” (pg. 3)

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"The Taínos, the first people Columbus encountered in the Caribbean, had complex hierarchical religious, political and social systems. They honored two primary deities: a supreme god or creator, Yúcahu, the lord of cassava and the sea; and a fertility goddess, Atabey, the goddess of fresh water."

"Average Mexicas would have had little in their homes except sleeping mats, a hearth, and a shrine with a figure of a god."

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“While the spiritual belief systems of the people in the New World were similar to those held by many other societies around the world, the Spaniards considered the people pagans. And the conquistadors, colonists, and priests arriving in the New World from Spain believed they had been commanded by god and country to convince all non- believers to share their faith.”

¨Spanish zeal eventually enabled Catholicism to make great inroads into the New World. But in the process, 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.¨

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“Spanish zeal eventually enabled Catholicism to make great inroads into the New World. But in the process, 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” (3).