Junipero Serra was a Franciscan priest who organized Indian missions and established Spanish civilization in what area?

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When considering the historical role of Junípero Serra, a key clue is his association with establishing missions in what was then called New Spain, specifically in the region that would become California. 
Option 1: New Spain (California). This aligns with historical records that Serra founded a chain of mission settlements along the California coast, forming the cornerstone of Spanish colonial religious and territorial organization there. 
Option 2: Brazil. This option is inaccurate because Serra’s missions were not in Brazil; Brazil was under Portuguese rather than Spanish influence, with a different track of colonization and church history. 
Option 3: Central America. Although the Spanish did establish missions throughout Central America, Serra’s most famous and documented work focused on the California coast in present-day the U.S. state of California, not Central American territories. 
Option 4: Paraguay. Paraguay lies in South America far from Serra’s mission network, and it was part of a different colonial framework with distinct missionary activity, not the California coastal mission system Serra led.

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Junipero Serra was a Franciscan priest who organized Indian missions and established Spanish civilization in what area?

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