Over the next 250 years, the soldiers and priests traveled north and started missions. Priests wanted to convert American Indians to Roman Catholicism. Other European nations sent explorers and settlers to the Americas. The spanish wanted to stop these nations from claiming land.
The purpose of the Spanish missions in New Spain was to make the Native Americans into Christians.
The purpose of the Spanish missions in New Spain was to make the Native Americans into Christians.
The country of Spain sponsored the building of missions to help new settlers establish a presence along the coast, before anyone else.
Missions.
missions
The country of Spain sponsored the building of missions to help new settlers establish a presence along the coast, before anyone else.
Missions.
Missions.
Missions.
Spain built missions in the borderlands of New Spain to convert Native Americans to Christianity. These missions served as religious communities where Native Americans were taught Christianity, agriculture, and other skills to assimilate them into Spanish colonial society.
They were built to establish a Spanish presence and help new settlers travel northward (over land) from New Spain. They were also built to encourage Christianity with the Indians.
Pueblo, presidios, and missions