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KMC CH 15 Expln/Miss
KMC CH 15 Exploration and Missionary Movements
Question | Answer |
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Why Europeans began to extend their sights beyond the Mediterranean for trade | 1) Crusaders brought back exotic goods which whetted the European appetite for silks and spices; 2) Renaissance culture provided new technologies that made possible daring voyages; 3) Monarchs of the emerging nations were wealthy enough to fund voyages |
Columbian Exchange | Widespread exchange of agricultural goods and diseases which occurred between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492 |
De Propaganda Fide | Congregation founded by Pope Gregory XV to promote and establish apostolic missions |
Spain's official policy for the treatment of native people | 1) Spain forbid the enslavement of native peoples, 2) Spanish colonists married the native people and assimilated them into their culture, 3) missionary activities were generously supported by the crown |
St. Francis Xavier | Founding member of the Society of Jesus and a great missionary to India and Japan; he believed missionaries needed to learn the native language to be successful |
St. Thomas Christians | Christians in India whose ancestors were converted by St. Thomas the Apostle |
Why rulers of Japan and China persecuted the Jesuits | They became fearful of a western invasion because the Europeans were expanding their trading empires in the East |
What Christian missionaries found when Japan was reopened to the West | 50,000 thoroughly orthodox Catholics who quickly joined in solidarity with the missionaries |
Philippines | The most successful missionary activity occurred in this land. |
Africa | The least successful missionary activity occurred here, due to the many diseases which quickly killed the missionaries |
State of the Church in China today | There exist two "Catholic" churches: the "Patriotic Church" sanctioned by the Communist government and the underground Church which is still united with Rome. |
Animism | Religious belief largely held by native tribes, which attributes human qualities to objects or animals |
Laws of Burgos | Laws passed by the Spanish crown at the request of Bishop Bartolome de las Casas which protected the rights of the Indians |
St. Juan Diego | Recipient of the miracle which included a tilma full of roses |
Missions | Indian communities created by the Spanish missionaries so that their efforts of evangelization would be untouched by the bad example of outsiders |
Bl. Junipero Serra | He founded nine of the twenty-one California missions. |
St. Peter Claver | He helped the slaves in Cartagena, Columbia and declared himself "the slave of the Negroes forever." |
Two papal prounouncements condemning slavery | Sicut dudum (Not Long Ago) by Pope Eugene IV in 1435, and Sublimis Deus (The Sublime God) by Pope Paul III in 1534-1549 |
"North American martyrs" | Sts. John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues and their companions |