How did missionaries attempt to convert indigenous populations to Christianity?

Mar 28, 2020 ... Ponce de Leon may have named the place then known as Bimini — which he thought was an island — after the Easter time "Feast of Flowers," but he ... Oct 11, 2023 ... Juan Ponce de León helped Spain expel the Moors · Juan Ponce de León crushed a Native American rebellion in the Dominican Republic · Ponce de León ... History of Juan Ponce de Leon's Voyages to Florida: Source Records. Florida Historical Society Quarterly. Volume 14, number 1 (July 1935), pages 3-70. Before the Spanish came to La Florida, the Timucuan Indian village was established at this site for nearly 3,000 years. In 1513 Juan Ponce De Leon claimed ... Jul 30, 2013 ... Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer who is thought to be one of the first Europeans to step foot on many of the Central American and Caribbean lands. He renamed the island Puerto Rico. He was the island's governor for two years until the king replaced him with Columbus' son. Discovery of Florida. Hurt by the ... Juan Ponce de León, born Juan Ponce de León y Figueroa, was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in the early 1500s. Born to a noble Spanish family in the ... of San Juan, and seeing himself rich, determined to do something with which to gain honor and increase estate; and as he had news that lands were found to ... Caparra was soon abandoned, and a better settlement made at a nearby coastal location, San Juan. But the wealthy conquistador was still not a happy man. He ... Feb 16, 2014 ... Gold was the bedrock of the Spanish New World economy. All of the principal settlers including Juan Ponce de León and the New World governor Diego Columbus ...