Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos' has mentioned 'Reductions' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Distinguished by a unique fusion of European and Amerindian cultural influences, the missions were founded as reductions or reducciones de indios by Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centuries to convert local tribes to Christianity. | WIKI |
| Part of a series onSpanish missionsin the Americasof the Catholic Church Missions in North America Arizona Baja California California The Carolinas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mexico New Mexico Querxc3xa9taro Sonoran Desert Texas Trinidad Virginia Missions in South America Chiloxc3xa9 Chiquitos Cxc3xb3rdoba Itapxc3xbaa Nahuel Huapi Mainas Paraguay Rxc3xado Bueno Related topics Cargo system Mission Indians Reductions Andes Jesuit xc2xa0Catholicism portalvte | WIKI |
| The missionaries employed the strategy of gathering the often nomadic indigenous populations in larger communities called reductions in order to more effectively Christianize them. | WIKI |
| Reductions, whether created by secular or religious authorities, generally were construed as instruments to force the natives to adopt European culture and lifestyles and the Christian religion. | WIKI |
| The Jesuits were unique in attempting to create a theocratic "state within a state" in which the native peoples in the reductions, guided by the Jesuits, would remain autonomous and isolated from Spanish colonists and Spanish rule. | WIKI |
| The War of the Spanish Succession (1701xe2x80x931714) caused a shortage of missionaries and instability in the reductions, so no new missions were built during this period. | WIKI |
| Six of the reductions were listed as part of the World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1990. | WIKI |
| In their design of the reductions, the Jesuits were inspired by xe2x80x9cideal citiesxe2x80x9c as outlined in works such as Utopia and Arcadia, written respectively by the 16th-century English philosophers Thomas More and Philip Sidney. | WIKI |
| The architecture and internal layout of these missions followed a scheme which was repeated later with some variations in the rest of the missionary reductions. | WIKI |
| These sculptures exhibit a style unique to the Chiquitos region, differing from that of the reductions in Paraguay or the Bolivian highlands. | WIKI |
| The reductions were self-sufficient indigenous communities of 2,000xe2x80x934,000 inhabitants, usually headed by two Jesuit priests and the cabildo (town council and cacique (tribal leader), who retained their functions and played the role of intermediaries between the native peoples and the Jesuits. | WIKI |
| [4][32] However, the degree to which the Jesuits controlled the indigenous population for which they had responsibility and the degree to which they allowed indigenous culture to function is a matter of debate, and the social organization of the reductions have been variously described as jungle utopias on the one hand, to theocratic regimes of terror, the former description being much closer to the mark. | WIKI |
| In the reductions, the natives were free men. | WIKI |
| The thriving economy in the reductions enabled them to export surplus goods to all parts of Upper Peru, although ironically not to Paraguay xe2x80x93 the region the Jesuits most wanted to reach. | WIKI |
| The most famous was probably the Italian baroque composer Domenico Zipoli, who worked in the reductions in Paraguay. | WIKI |