Reductions
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Reductions
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Reductions were settlements established by Spanish rulers and Roman Catholic missionaries in Spanish America and the Spanish East Indies. In Portuguese-speaking Latin America, such reductions were also called aldeias. The Spanish and Portuguese relocated, forcibly in many cases, indigenous inhabitants of their colonies into urban settlements modeled on those in Spain and Portugal.
The Royal Academy of Spain defines reducción (reduction) as "a grouping into settlement of indigenous people for the
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Spanish colonial settlements for relocation and Christianization of natives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductions
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2023-12-05T09:18:33Z
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