Evaluate the extent to which Christianity changed societies in Latin America in the period 1500-1800.
Document 1
Source: Record of the confession of Domingos Fernandes Nobre, a Brazilian man of mixed
European-Amerindian ancestry, at his Inquisition trial, Brazil, 1592.
The defendant, Domingos Fernandes Nobre, confessed that twenty years ago he went to the wilderness of
Porto Seguro, Brazil, in the company of others to search for gold, and there he practiced the customs of the
heathens, staining his legs with paint. He also confessed that sixteen years ago he was ordered to go to the
region of Paraiba, as captain of a company to bring natives as slaves downriver to be settled and, while being
there, he painted his body in the heathen way and danced and sang and played musical instruments with the
heathens in their way.