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Why did so many Native American peoples adopt Christianity in Latin America during the 1500s?

AMissionaries joined Native American tribes and encouraged them to convert.
BMany Native Americans married Spanish colonists and adopted the religion of their husbands and wives.
CThe pope required that the Spanish monarchs make the conversion of native peoples to Christianity a priority during colonization.
DNative Americans wanted to increase their ability to trade with the Spanish colonists, and saw religion as a way to achieve that aim.

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The first statement is not really correct: most of the missionaries didn't consider the native American cultures worthy of learning.


The conversion was less of a choice of the Native Americans actually than it was imposed on them.
The correct answer is:c. The pope required that the Spanish monarchs make the conversion of
native peoples to Christianity a priority during colonization.

Answer:

c

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