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  2. Spanish missions in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    An example of rebellion against colonization and missionaries is the Pueblo Revolt in 1680, in which the Zuni, Hopi, as well as Tiwa, Tewa, Towa, Tano, and Keres-speaking Pueblos took control of Santa Fe and drove the Spanish colonists of New Mexico with heavy casualties on the Spanish side, including the killing of 21 of the 33 Franciscan ...

  3. List of missionaries to New Spain - Wikipedia

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    During the Spanish colonization of the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries, the Spanish Empire established many hundreds of Catholic missions throughout their colonies in the Americas. These missions were founded and staffed by numerous Catholic religious orders of regular clergy. The following is a list of these missionaries to New Spain.

  4. Lists of Spanish colonial missions of the Roman Catholic ...

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    The Spanish colonial government coordinated with the Roman Catholic Church to establish churches throughout their New World possessions. Jesuit missions in North America; Spanish missions in Mexico. Spanish missions in Baja California; Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro; Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert; Franciscan ...

  5. Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Spanish men and women settled in greatest numbers where there were dense indigenous populations and the existence of valuable resources for extraction. [1] The Spanish Empire claimed jurisdiction over the New World in the Caribbean and North and South America, with the exception of Brazil, ceded to Portugal by the Treaty of Tordesillas. Other ...

  6. Spanish missions in Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Since 1493, the Kingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España (New Spain, consisting of what is today Mexico, the Southwestern United States, the Florida and the Luisiana, Central America, the Spanish Caribbean and the Philippines) in order to preach the gospel to these lands.

  7. Visit 10 sacred Spanish missions and sites in San Antonio to ...

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    If you seek a place to think about how Spanish missionaries and Indigenous converts, many of them Coahuiltecans, passed their days and night, spend time at Mission San José (6701 San Jose Dr ...

  8. New Spain - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of New Spain was established on 18 August 1521, following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, as a New World kingdom ruled by the Crown of Castile. The initial funds for exploration came from Queen Isabella .

  9. History of New Spain - Wikipedia

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    The evangelization of Mexico. Spanish conquerors saw it as their right and their duty to convert indigenous populations to Catholicism. Because Catholicism had played such an important role in the Reconquista (Catholic reconquest) of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims, the Catholic Church in essence became another arm of the Spanish government, since the crown was granted sweeping powers ...