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Title: An introduction to American history, European beginnings
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Alice M. (Alice Minerva), b. 1868
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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The Mission at Santa Barbara, California (From a photograph by Mr. R. F. Engle) missions and churches, and schools in which to teach thenatives the Catholic religion. The priests lived in theirmissions much as the monks lived in the monasteries ofEurope, except that they had more to do with peopleoutside. They learned the language of the Indians andtaught them to read, to raise grain, to do carpenter work, 268 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY to make shoes, to spin and weave cloth, and helpedthem to live peaceably with one another. These priests were for the most part members of theorder of St. Francis. Coming north from Mexico, they
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Corridor of Santa Barbara Mission (From a photograph by Mr. R. F. Engle) built missions along the Pacific coast from San Diegoto San Francisco. Some of these old buildings are stillto be seen in the fertile California valleys. In the fashionof the Benedictine monasteries, with their long, low build-ings, cloistered walks, and red-tiled roofs set in the midstof gardens and orchards, they made a pleasant haven for THE NEW WORLD 269 the whole country. Some of them are in ruins now, andmany are deserted, but there are still a few flourishingenough to show us what they all once were. Questions. 1. What object had Cortes in conquering Mexico? 2. Whatother people besides the Aztecs used picture writing or hieroglyphics ?3. Why was Balboas discovery of the Pacific important ? 4. What twoSpanish explorers were near the Mississippi River about the same timein 15 41 ? 5. Why do you suppose it was so easy for Pizarro to conquerthe Peruvians? 6. What was the importance of the explorations ofCorona

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