All throughout time Religion has been a significant aspect of all cultures. Religion has been the motivation for many great things, and for many more not so great things. Religions spread and brought in new believers and others converted from one religion to another. For most religions, spreading the word of God is undertaken by missionaries. This also goes for Christianity. The role of the Christian missionary was to spread the word of God to …showed first 75 words of 343 total…

…showed last 75 words of 343 total…riches or even both(Stearns 150). Not all countries were interested in the spreading of Roman Catholicism as other countries were. The English and Protestant Dutch had little interest in gaining converts to Christianity. Yet the spread of Roman Catholicism was a essential part of the worldwide operation of the Portugese and Spanish. Bibliography Works Cited Anand, Mulk Raj. Untouchable. London: Penguin, 1940. Stearns, Peter N. World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Volume 2, 2nd Edition. U.S.: Longman, 1996.