Unit 19: Paper 3 (HL) — History of the Americas
Topic 19.4: Religion in the New World (1500–1800) Questions
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Evaluate the impact of the Catholic Church on indigenous societies in the Americas between 1500 and 1800.
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Which missionary order built self-sufficient mission communities in Paraguay and actively defended indigenous converts from enslavement by Portuguese slave-raiders?
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To what extent did indigenous peoples in Spanish America successfully resist Christianization?
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Discuss the significance of religious syncretism in Spanish colonial society.
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Analyse the relationship between the Catholic Church and colonial political authority in Spanish America.
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Compare and contrast the methods used by the Jesuits and by the Franciscans and Dominicans to convert indigenous peoples in Spanish and Portuguese America.
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Examine the reasons for the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portuguese and Spanish America in the eighteenth century.
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Discuss the role of named individuals in shaping the religious history of Spanish and Portuguese America.
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To what extent was the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1759 and 1767 a turning point in the religious history of Spanish and Portuguese America?
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Analyse the reasons why indigenous peoples in the Americas both resisted and adapted to Christianity rather than simply accepting or rejecting it outright.
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Evaluate the claim that the Jesuit missions in Paraguay represented a fundamentally different model of colonial religious organisation from that of other missionary orders in the Americas.
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Examine the ways in which indigenous peoples exercised agency within the imposition of Catholicism in Spanish America.
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Analyse the reasons why the Great Awakening spread across colony and class lines in British North America.
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Discuss the impact of the Great Awakening (c1720-c1760) on religious and social life in the British colonies.
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Examine the reasons why religious syncretism developed in Spanish and Portuguese America.
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Compare and contrast religious tolerance in Pennsylvania and Maryland in the seventeenth century.
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Evaluate the claim that religious conversion in New France depended more on alliance than on force.
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Analyse the role of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the growth of religious syncretism in Mexico.
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Discuss the significance of missionary orders in shaping religious life in New France.
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Compare and contrast methods of religious conversion in Spanish America and New France.
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