SPAMISH Missions
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of those Spanish centuries. While Indians back the Spanish Government ision settlements, seeking to lead life. At these settlements -stately .eved in a wilderness with Indians, anting, engineering and architectural were characteristic of these mission ■orted long distances. At best, their e crude. Even in this present age ties such buildings would be notable
e up their care-free life and the and cloistered life of these mission^ y of these Spanish civilizing efforts.
ign mission policies with the stories nish-American history. The period ui the conquests was t,.	tury	following the discovery of
America, 1492-1542. The mission building period in the present United States was two centuries later. Spanish New V/ or Id Government and policies traveled far in those two centuries.
In that first half century of conquest Spanish rule was extended over the West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and South America except Portuguese Brazil. Spanish ships had circumnavigated the globe and they had explored and mapped the long coast lines of the Americas. Those amazing land expe-xlaxaiianst ditions had explored the continents; on this northern continent they had explored to the Carolines, Tennessee and Kansas. The English did not found Jamestown until 1607 and that little eolony failed. The Pilgrims came to XeKxEngiand Plymouth in 1620. The English ventures were coastal settlements e-n.
The Spanish conquests were war and all war is brutal. Spanish kings, queen and governing powers commanded humanity. Even in this day governments command, and racketeers do somewhat as they please. Spanish rulers condemned and prohibited the slavery of the Indians yet Indians went to their death in droves because of enforced slavery. Human slavery was not new; it had exisfcai existed among all races from time immemorial. Slavery was abolished in the Spanish-American States before it was in the United States.
When America was discovered Europe was in the depths of the Dark ages.
Religion was a superstitution. The oppressions of the inquisition were prevalent over Europe. Printing had been invented but was held under strict censorship. Reading and freedom of understanding hardly existed. Few could even write. Luther's Reformation was just beginning when Cortes waa conquering Mexico; one hundred years later when the Puritans and the Pilgrims were settling New England that struggle for personal liberty and intellectual understanding was still in its infancy.
This was the state of the world when Spain was conquering America and