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Which religion is MOST associated with the Europeans who explored and colonized Central and South America in the 1500s?

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Catholic. They wanted the natives to become Christians.
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Catholic

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The Catholic Church was the religion that was most associated with the European colonization in Latin America. During that time, the Catholic Church became the single largest landowner within those colonies. All aspects of the people’s live’s were dominated by the Church, birth, marriage, death. Missionaries were the responsible to convert the natives to the faith as a way of dominance.

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