1680 was a fairly influential time in the new growing world. During this time the Spanish had come to what is now known as New Mexico and thy came in and tried to conquer the new world. Like most other countries coming over to the new world the Spanish came with the idea of finding gold, glory, and spreading the word of the gospel. Yet conflict rose when the Spanish missionaries came along and tried to convert the Pueblo people to the catholic religion. As this happened things became tenser between the two groups and lead to what we know as The Pueblo Revolt or Popé’s rebellion.
The role of religion had a major part in the lead up to the revolt. It was the conflict of religion that caused the revolt to happen with the conversion to Catholicism, the injustices were done to the Puebloan people, and rebirth of the Pueblo people had. There was a lot that made this revolt. With the Spanish coming over they brought many things with them. The idea of gold, glory, and gospel was one of the many things. Over the course of the time that the Spanish had been with the Puebloan people they noticed that there was an “adoption” of the new catholic religion. This was
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They went from a somewhat cohesive society to the Spanish believing that they were better than the Puebloans and making them do their slaves. As Bartoloméde las Casas writes in his letter about how the Spanish treatment of the Pueblo people he notes that the one's mining for gold were consumed entirely by god and no one prospered (Casas). This showing that the quality of the life that the Puebloans were not benefitting from anything that they were doing for the Spanish. “When they were allowed to go home, they often found it deserted” (Casas). Another sign showing how things have to change due to the Spanish. It was things like this and many others that help lead up to the Pueblo