¶ … European colonies across the world and their relationships with the natives and competing colonial powers. Development of European colonies throughout non-European territories began in the 15th century, and perhaps even earlier. For European explorers, their motivation was likely a combination of human curiosity, pursuit of adventure, and a possible economic payoff for discovering new trade routes. Such motivations typically compelled European explorers like Amerigo Vespucci, Magellan, Columbus, and others, to seek out undiscovered lands, peoples, and potential profits.

In particular, European colonization of non-European territories, in areas like the New World (now the Americas); Alaska; and Africa, permitted countries like Spain; Portugal; Italy; Great Britain; Holland, Russia, and various others, sometimes at the same time, to lay claim to foreign territories, and their indigenous peoples (often, as with the Spanish, in the guise of religion). Colonization by...

In the end, the Catholic Church itself fails to support the Jesuits in their missionary endeavor (the Jesuits have always been considered rebels of the Church), for both economic and political reasons. This film vividly shows how colonization by two competing European nations, with separate economic and religious…