1What is progress? The definition of progress is that of a forward or onward movement; gradual betterment. With knowing this can one say that the Spaniards of the New World made progress? Was progress the same for the Indians? Did they feel that they made progress like the Spaniards had thought? Progress can have different meanings to every individual but selfish desires can cloud one's mind and the true meaning of progress.
The Spaniards, of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries or the New World, wanted to make progress in the world and also had a very similar understanding of progress. By progress they meant extending their Christian faith to all of the world and make more followers in their belief. Learning from the natives about their homelands was crucial if the Spanish were to ever make believers of the natives. The rest of the world was also not as educated as the Spaniards and the Spaniards wanted to develop the rest of humankind and share their knowledge.
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English: Christopher Columbus monument, Denver, CO..."Spaniards were always involved in the new technology of the world."# They were always moving forward with the development of the world. They often believed that what they were doing was what God had wanted them to do because of their Christian belief. The Spaniards took natives onto their ships in hopes of giving them the Christian religion and also to educate the natives about their knowledge of the world.
"The Spaniards would use their Christianity to take over lands because they belief that God was on their side and that their religion is superior to that of the rest of the worlds religions."# The Spaniards had the ability to read and to write and this gave them more knowledge about the world and how uneducated the world really was, especially2compared to them.