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Missions are areas where priests converted Native Americans to Christianity. The Native Americans would also be taught how to read and write in their own language in 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.
Once they converted the mission Native Americans they taught the Catholic religion. Basically the mission system kept the Native Americans at the missions as slaves. They couldn't leave the mission and historians have found mass graves of Native Americans.
The Franciscans established missions in California where they taught Native Americans new agricultural techniques and introduced crops such as wheat, corn, and grapes. They also provided a stable source of food, shelter, and work which encouraged many Native Americans to settle near the missions and learn agricultural practices, thus transitioning from a hunter-gatherer economy to an agricultural one.
Spanish conquistadors and explorers usually were accompanied by priests who began missions to evangelize the Native Americans.
Missionaries taught the Native Americans at missions to convert to Christianity, adopt European cultural practices, attend church services, learn European languages, and engage in agriculture and other forms of labor.
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They taught themselves with the help of Indians (Native Americans).
To get a general idea, the Native Americans taught the Europeans how to farm, kill certain animals, make jewelry (such as bead necklaces), and many other things. In return, the Europeans taught the Native Americans how to use advanced technologic weapons (guns), and taught them the idea of religion.
They taught them to grow crops.
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1. OBEY 2. WORK 3. GO TO CHURCH 4. STAY AT THE MISSION 5. BEHAVE here are 5 things