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Why did friars and jesuits go to the Spanish colonies in the Americas

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they went to convert the native people of the americas to christianity.

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They went to convert the native peoples to Catholicism. They're groups of religious men whose duties is to go out into foreign land and spread their belief to that region. Some tribes responded really well to their teaching while some events ended up in confrontation.
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