Gabriel Garcia Moreno - Regenerator of Ecuador (Illustrated) Bishops and priests were sent to evangelize the country, and civilization and religion united to secure its prosperity, but in the following century everything was changed; the wise advice given by C
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| Title | : | Gabriel Garcia Moreno - Regenerator of Ecuador (Illustrated) |
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (238 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B015424BIK |
| Format Type | : | - |
| Number of Pages | : | 0 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-08 |
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The early history of Ecuador, the country which has the glory of counting Gabriel Garcia Moreno among its sons, is little known to us. In the fifteenth century, however, that portion of South America was conquered by the Incas of Peru, who after forty years, were in their turn dispossessed by the Spaniards. At first the Spanish kings did their duty faithfully to their new possessions. Bishops and priests were sent to evangelize the country, and civilization and religion united to secure its prosperity, but in the following century everything was changed; the wise advice given by Columbus regarding the treatment of the poor natives here and elsewhere was disregarded, and the inhabitants were enslaved by a multitude of grasping speculators and place-hunters, who, having decimated them by their cruelties, imported black slaves from Africa and established the slave trade which it has taken three centuries to abolish.
In course of time followed the abolition of the Missions, the expuls
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