A hundred years ago, in the early months of 1916, America stood possessed of a magnificent, visionary, slightly confused and inchoate idea: national parks. These would be parks for the American citizenry, not pleasure grounds or private hunting reserves for nawabs and kings; parks to be shared, even, with visitors from around the world.
At that point 14 national parks already existed in the United States, the oldest being Yellowstone, which had been set aside by federal law, back in 1872, as the first national park anywhere in the world. The other U.S. parks, representing a diverse sample of majestic landscapes, all west of the Mississippi, included Yosemite in California (originally a state park, nationalized in 1890), Wind Cave in South Dakota (1903), Glacier in Montana (1910), and Rocky Mountain in Colorado (1915). There were also 21 national monuments—a form of protection more easily achieved because it could come by presidential decree under the Antiquities Act (passed in 1906), as robustly exploited by Theodore Roosevelt during his last three years as president. That early list of national monuments included Devils Tower, Chaco Canyon, Muir Woods, and the Grand Canyon.
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children as young as 12 or 13
European culture was spread by missionaries who went to Asia and Africa to convert native peoples to Christianity.
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The dissemination of Christianity to the far east was looked at as a responsibility by radical Christians of the west.
The Pope himself had called it the duty of the followers of Christianity to convert people from all over the world and bring them to believe in their faith.
In order to accomplish this cause, the Emperors of the major western empires sponsored dedicated groups of people and sent them to the east.
These groups of people were known as missionaries as they were on the mission to spread Christianity.
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