Catholic pedagogical orders followed Columbus across the Americas within decades
Evidence
Columbus carries a royal commission from Ferdinand and Isabella of Castile. He carries the cross. He carries the expectation of gold. He does not carry a pedagogical manual. But the pedagogical apparatus follows within the decade. The first Franciscan friars arrive in Hispaniola in 1500. The first Dominican friars arrive in 1510. The first Augustinians in 1533. The Jesuits — the most operationally consequential pedagogical order in the Catholic Church, whose Ratio Studiorum Episode 39 documented — arrive in the Americas in 1549 (Brazil) and 1572 (Peru and Mexico). — , The Rod and the Child, 4886
Categorization
- XREF: Dates cross-check against the Ratio Studiorum treatment in Episode 39 and echo the African mission-schooling arc in Episode 64. — connects to: The first European settlement in the Americas quickly collapsed into violence with indigenous peoples