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I don't have a problem with the Christianization of the world. Too bad everyone does not try to spread Christianity..The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493 | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493 | <p><a href="/sites/default/files/content-images/GLC04093_0.jpg"><img class="full" alt="Demarcation bull, granting Spain possession of the New World, May 4, 1493." src="/sites/default/files/imagecache/inline-2col-float/content-images/GLC04093_0.jpg" title="Pope...www.gilderlehrman.org
The Papal Bull "Inter Caetera," issued by Pope Alexander VI on May 4, 1493, played a central role in the Spanish conquest of the New World
The Bull stated that any land not inhabited by Christians was available to be "discovered," claimed, and exploited by Christian rulers and declared that "the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself." This