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This chapter discusses the "spiritual conquest" that accompanied the physical conquest of the Americas by Spanish colonizers. It describes how the friars took responsibility for destroying indigenous religious sites and idols in order to impose Christianity. However, there were contradictions in preaching a religion of love and peace while violently imposing cultural re-education. The conquistadors also needed to legitimize their violent actions through claims of spreading Christianity. They viewed indigeno

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Jorge Yanovsky

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