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by religious conversion method of exchanging one set of values

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for another All right wait Okay How did religious conversion

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in spanish colonisation differ from the method shown in the

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image I hear potential answers All right well by the

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time the european start colonizing the americas they'd already spent

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a couple of centuries fighting each other over religions so

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when they sailed across the atlantic they were bound to

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have differing approaches to the art and science of religious

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conversion Did conversion in spanish colonisation differ from the method

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in the image Because a the spanish adopted the religious

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beliefs of the native americans Well the conquistadors motto was

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gold glory and god not gold glory and will have

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whatever they're having so that eliminates a nd were spanish

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efforts different from those of the english because d the

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spanish refused to translate the bible for native americans to

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read well while there were a few attempts by the

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catholic church to suppress translations crease in south america went

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to great lengths to translate portions of the bible into

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native american languages as early as the mid fifteen hundred

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so it's not even which means that religious conversion in

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spanish colonisation differed from the method in the image because

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see the spanish allowed native american tribes toe follow traditional

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religions In sixteen eighty the pueblo tribes revolted after the

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spanish banned them from practicing their own religion So the

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spanish realized it'd probably be best to allowed native american

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tribes to retain their rites and rituals That makes see

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the right answer Sometimes it's best not to be contrary 00:01:59.908 --> [endTime] to the o

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