Week 4 Project 4a

In a paragraph, tell us what "Conquest/Colonial' means.
· Conquest: A term used in feudal law to designate land acquisition by purchase; or any method other than descent or inheritance by which an individual obtains ownership of an estate. A term used in international law for the process whereby a sovereign nation is, by force of arms, made to submit to another nation; the defeated country thus becomes part of the empire of the conqueror.
· Colonial: Applied to styles of architecture derived from those of the motherland in a colony. American Colonial is a modification of the English Georgian or Queen Anne styles, of particular interest because very often pattern-book designs were re-interpreted for timber-framed structures, or otherwise altered, often by very subtle means. Although originally associated with the original thirteen British colonies in North America, the essentials of American Colonial architecture were often revived well into C20 all over the USA.
Tell us why you chose the topic, tell us about the sources you used: I chose this topic because I can relate to it, when I was younger my teachers bring our class to some of the missions in California. Ever since I was fascinated, the missions are very old, but beautiful. I found a lot of videos on YouTube and I found a website on Google.
Tell us 3 interesting facts about your topic in 3 separate paragraphs:
The Spanish missions in California more simply referred to as the California Missions comprise a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823 to spread the Catholic faith among the local Native Americans.
As early as the voyages of Christopher Columbus, the Kingdom of Spain sought to establish missions to convert Pagans to Roman Catholicism in Nueva España New Spain, consisting of the Caribbean, Mexico and most of what today is the Southwestern United States, in order to facilitate colonization of these lands awarded to Spain by the Catholic Church. The modern region "California" in this context refers to the Spanish territory formerly known as Alta California.
The Spanish mission system arose in part from the need to control Spain's ever-expanding holdings in the New World. Realizing that the colonies would require a literate population base that the mother country could not supply, the Spanish Crown (with the cooperation of the Church) established a network of missions with the goal of converting the natives to Christianity; the aim was to make converts and tax paying citizens of the indigenous peoples they conquered.
Use two sources for your work. Cite your sources used for this component and tell us why these sources are credible:
*http://youtube.com/watch?v=SiGukNlJzUk
* http://www.californiamissions.com/cahistory/index.html