The Franciscans came to California not merely to convert the tribes to Christianity but to train them for life in a European colonial society. Protection from their enemies access to stable food sources attraction to Spanish culture and religion fear of Spanish weapons and a desire to stay together with their clans and kin.
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Lastly the mission was a defensive center with heavy gates and doors and shuttered windows on high walls and clerestories.

Why did the spanish build missions in california. Not until the Seven Years War 1756-1763 realigned European alliances and their colonial empires did Spain seriously attempt to assert control of Alta California. When the Spanish wanted to settle what is now the state of California they sent soldiers and priests. The mission complex served as a religious center as well as a vocational center.
Courtesy of San Antonio Missions NHP. The history of the United States is a marvelous story about roads and frontiers. Why did people build missions.
The soldiers built forts or presidios in the strategic locations of San Diego Santa Barbara Monterey and San Francisco. Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1769. The Spain people discovered Alta upper California where the missions are now and they didnt want anyone to claim.
Just as palm trees were planted so there would be palm fronds for Palm Sunday vineyards were planted so there would be wine for communion. Missionaries are people who try to spread their religion. Between 1769 and 1823 they.
The Spanish government wanted there to be marriages between Spanish people and the Indians. The land on which the missions were established was not given to the Catholic Church. The story of wine in California begins with the story of the Spanish in California.
Some of these were. Conversion was seldom an entirely voluntary process and converts. Alongside Spanish soldiers and a few pioneers the Franciscans embarked on an arduous trek up the California coast.
The Spanish missionaries wanted to get Native Americans to practice Roman Catholicism a branch of Christianity. Spanish Florida originally included much of what is now the Southeastern United States. Presidio of Monterey Monterey.
Beginning in the second half of the 16th century the Kingdom of Spain established a number of missions throughout La Florida in order to convert the Native Americans to Christianity to facilitate control of the area and to prevent its colonization by other countries in particular England and France. The Spanish built missions throughout the southern parts of what is now the United States. Native Americans came to the California missions for a variety of reasons.
Presidio of San Francisco. They planned for towns to grow up around the missions which would then become parish churches. Mission Santa Inés Solvang.
This attempt was made through a combination of military forts presidios and mission churches overseen by. Presidio of San Diego. Why Did Native Americans Come to the California Missions.
Soldiers at Presidio of San Francisco Xavier de Gigedo were uniformed similarly. One scholar Robert Archibald has written that the missions were akin to the forced movement of black people from Africa to the American South With. The mission was also an economic center for trade and the production of crops which non-contiguous lands for ranching and farming supported.
Mission Santa Cruz Santa Cruz. The California missions began in the late 18th century as an effort to convert Native Americans to Catholicism and expand European territory. After 1769 the life of the California natives who came in contact with the Spanish was reshaped by the mission fathers not the townspeople of the pueblos or the soldiers of the presidios.
Vineyard planting in the state began with the Spanish Franciscan Missionaries starting with Californias first mission. One of the great chapters of that story is about the Spanish missions that extended from Florida to California. Stretching from San Diego de Alcalá in the south to San Francisco de Solano California in the north there are 21 Spanish.
Spanish soldier of the 1700s in Texas. The priests built a series of missions that stretch from what is now the border with Mexico to Sonoma.
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