Question

which of the following BEST describes how the Spanish missions changed the structure of Mississippian Indian Culture?
A. The spanish missions broke up Indian families by forcing young men to work at St. Augustine for several months of each year.
B. The spanish missions required unmarried mississippian indian men to work for several months of each year to encourage the younger generations to adopt Spanish customs and religion.
C.the spanish forced mississippian indian villages to relocate to the east so they would be closer to the barrier islands the missionaries lived on.
D.The spanish missions were established to govern Spain’s colonies but caused the collapse of Mississippi indians by spreading European diseases to a population with no immunity to them.

Answer 1

Answer:

D.The Spanish missions were established to govern Spain’s colonies but caused the collapse of Mississippi Indians by spreading European diseases to a population with no immunity to them.

Explanation:

Spanish missions were catholic churches established by the Spanish crown with the aim of colonizing the Native Indians in North America. They spread the Catholic doctrine to them, thus overriding their traditional worship of gods and idols.

The Native Indians attended these churches and gradually the Spanish people introduced their culture to them. A limiting factor to this development was the introduction of diseases by the Europeans to the Native Indians who had no immunity to the diseases and this led to the death of many of the natives.