Spanish Influence

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helped manage the
government in the colonies, and carried out orders from the king. This
method did not work too well since orders from the king took months and
even years before reaching the viceroys, after which a message may be
outdated and irrelevant.

New social institutions changed the way people lived. The Church
was the first and most important social institution because Spanish life in
the colonies revolved around Catholicism. The Church's goal was to convert
everyone presently living in the New World to Christianity. This topic
brings us to the Missions. Missions were large estates on which were set
up schools and other facilities to teach the Indians to become proper
Christians. encomiendas and repartimientos were also large estates, but on
these lived many people and slaves. The Spanish crown entrusted
encomiendas and slaves to noble warriors who had done well in battle, and
in return, these nobles paid taxes to the crown. Many other people lived
on the same ...

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