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Spanish monarchy begins its widespread missions strategy.

1609

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Spain's missionary strategy is used to force conversion to Christianity. Forced conversion is one way to force assimilation into a religious economic structure that links the Spanish Empire with the divine right of kings, thereby justifying the violence of colonization as being necessary to the saving of Christian souls.