I believe the answer is: <span>A. They went to convert the native peoples to Catholicism.
They're groups of religious men whose duties is to go out into foreign land and spread their belief to that region. Some tribes responded really well to their teaching while some events ended up in confrontation.</span>
The answer is option a- as the European colonisers attempted to covert the Indigenous people to Christianity, for the sole purpose of establishing a society that was, in their view, more colonial.
It created a sort of curiosity in people to find out what the world truly is all about. Which lead to more science explorations.
