You are forgetting that the reason Europeans were fleeing Europe was because European nations were waging savage brutal wars against one another, for thousands of years, and certain rich kingdoms were seeking new trade routes, to build wealth to wage war on other European nations.
The Spanairds had just driven armies of Moors off the European continent when they sent expeditions to America stocked full of war veterans.
They didn’t want all of these battle tested veterans hanging around medival towns causing trouble.
Anyways. Please read some history....
This is a very interesting time in European history. There is a lot a written accounts of the new world expeditions. It’s very fascinating to see good Catholic people deal with native American cultures.
You will be surprised how many Catholic people agonized over fighting and killing the indigenous people of the Americas, and wrote about it.
They were smart enough to know that killing people, because they were different... isn’t a Christian Virtue.
Might that have been in part due to promises having been made to the people that leaders had no intention of keeping?
You will be surprised how many Catholic people agonized over fighting and killing the indigenous people of the Americas, and wrote about it. They were smart enough to know that killing people, because they were different... isn’t a Christian Virtue.
Christianity had a powerful influence on pagan Europe but Europe only partially Christianized. A recognition of that can help explain a lot.