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Religion And Colonization In The New World

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Religion and Colonization In the New World was oportunity for all Europe, Spaniards, English, Portuguese, and even French. This new continent was able do give them gold, silver, wood, even a commercial trade route to China, or just an equality on their societies. But there was too many ways to atach the success way, those ways were in fact leaded by the religion. Spain, for example, leaded by a Roman Christianity, and a desire on reconquistar the lost nations for the Church, took the volence as the way to success. Taking with himself a large number of Native Americans Tribes, thus way they attain a huge control all over South, and Central America. The French were careless about a commitment as the Spaniards had to the Roman Church. They

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