About 1690.
Spain started to build missions in Texas around 1690.
Spain began building missions in Texas in 1716. Two years later, the first civilian settlement in Texas, San Antonio, was established as a way station between the missions and the nearest existing Spanish settlement.
it is 2000 belive me it is okay.
The person who was sent to Spain to build missions was father Serra
Because Spain owned it until the Louisiana Purchase which gave the US MOST of its current land mass.
Missions.
Missions.
Missions.
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to colonize, claim land and build 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.
Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona