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Topic: The exploration of the North Americans
Spanish
France was visiting North America around the same time as Spain was establishing a New World empire. Exploration in Europe was motivated by three factors. For the sake of their economy, religion, and glory. They desired to develop their economies by purchasing more spices, Gold, and more accessible and quicker trade routes. The entire enterprise was funded by the Voyages of Columbus, Ferdinand, and Isabella.
There were religious components in the quest to explore North America. Missionary activities played an enormous role in propagating Christianity in Latin America, as one would expect from a profoundly affiliated population with the Catholic Church. The monastic or priestly orders used various approaches. These epic quests consisted of quasi villages clustered around a town constructed along with European models and administered by the clergy, who offered religious instruction, mostly in local languages, in return for manual work. If the church viewed their charges poorly or went too far in restricting native cultural customs, it could lead to insurrection.
If the Pope had given Spain sovereignty over the Native Americans, de Las Casas maintained that the native populations retained their land rights and rights to their labor. Natives were Spanish crown subjects, and treating them as being less than human was a violation of God’s natures and Spanish laws. Defenders of the process believed that this was an excellent deterrent to indigenous colonization. Several missions did fight with the colonial administration on those problems, but it was not without its shortcomings. The Annihilation of the Indies, as revealed by de las Casas’, a succinct Account, and the Spanish colonialism background revealed that the colonizers were oppressive and coercive against Native Americans as during Spanish colonization.
Even though the Spanish settlers were Christians, they murdered them for money and Gold. According to his account, Spanish Colonizers killed anyone they came across, including children, and those who survived were slaves. Numerous Native Americans have been killed, and refugees have been enslaved, robbed, and tortured due to their vices.
English
English traders and adventurers scoured the northeast and northwest for new sea routes to Asia. Exploration in Europe was motivated by three factors; To build their economy for glory and religion. They desired to develop their economies by purchasing more spices, Gold, and more accessible and quicker trade routes, just like the Spanish. They also believed strongly in the importance of spreading their faith, Christianity. The Plymouth Council for New England funded the enterprise. The supporting team included the pilgrim’s settlement.
Just like the Spanish, the English tend to have bizarre navigational hazards, especially with the idea of adventure. However, with religion, it was a different case. The religious settlers were known as the pilgrims. They came seeking religious freedom during King James’ I’s period. The Native Americans welcomed the refugees and aided them in their survival. The Pilgrims and the Native Americans then celebrated together, although the Pilgrims believed the Native Americans to be heathens. The Pilgrims were devout Christians who emigrated from Europe in search of religious liberty. To expressly countermanded and send the English army, the Indians reacted with atrocities and yet still committed evil and horrid crimes in all regions(Bacon).
Dutch
The initial purpose of Dutch colonizers was to locate the route to Asia through North America. Still, after realizing that the fur trading was lucrative, the Dutch claimed the New Netherlands area. To broaden their fur trade activities, both the Dutch and the French relied on marriages with Native Americans. The West India Company funded the whole expedition. The Dutch migrated to America to escape any forms of religious persecution. They were different from the Spanish that came to spread the Christian concept, and yet they lived to commit several atrocities to the general public. The Dutch were more similar to the English Pilgrims, who also sought asylum in North America and became settlers. The religious concept was spread due to their trading idea, especially fur obtained from the North Americans. It was, however, notable that a good percentage of the Dutch population was affiliated with the Roman Catholic. And therefore, they lived like the Spanish and their Christian principles. Observing the spread of Christianity in New France, especially among the Hurons, from afar, it seemed to me to be a particular act of divine Providence (LeJeune, 1637). Christianity’s concept as a sense of divinity was not very much an active issue like the English and the Spanish.
The Dutch concentrated on American Indian commerce in present New York and New Jersey. They formed a fur trading alliance with the Iroquois Confederacy, North America’s most dominant Native American empire in the 17th century. Regarding the Indians, the Dutch generally followed a living policy and let live: they did not force assimilation or religious conversion on the Indians. Both in Europe and North America, the Dutch had little interest in forcing conformity on religious, political, and racial minorities. With the cumulating interest in trade and other activities related, the relations between the Dutch and Indians grew so much with interest in the economy.
Work cited
Bacon, Nathaniel, and William Berkeley. “Bacon’s Rebellion Bacon’s Rebellion.”
LeJeune, 1637_______instructions for the fathers of our society who shall be sent to the Hurons. Jesuit Relations