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Asia In The 1500s Research Paper

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As early as the 1500s, Asia was making a start towards religion. Many Missionaries, like the Jesuits, introduced various parts of Asia to the Christian faith. Towards the end of 1500, Jesuits were teaching in sixteen villages throughout India. These missionaries coming to serve mostly had good effects to the country and a few bad effects too. The positive effects of the spread were that the citizen’s faith grew, along with their community. In Japan, priests were getting persecuted and the people could not worship freely. But, as Xavier started preaching, people converted from Buddhism and Shintoism to Catholicism publicly. In the Philippines, citizens would go to church because it was the only shelter they had from the oppressors. Soon later,

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