For wealth (since Columbus brought back gold many explorers would search the "new world" for more of it) but also for gain of land and power.
The spanish conquered the Inca and Aztec empires in America.
Aztec and Inca.
Aztec and Inca
he wanted money and wealth!!!
Not just them, but any native American culture that was contacted by Europeans.
Both the Aztec and the Inca were defeated by Spanish conquistadors. Both the Aztec and the Inca were New World empires. Both the Aztec and Inca had calendars of their own. Both had gold artifacts that the Spanish wanted.
Spain conquered the Inca and Aztec Empires. By the time of European arrival, the Mayan civilization had imploded four centuries prior.
They were more advanced and had better weapons. The Europeans also unknowingly brought diseases to the native people, greatly weakening their civilizations and armies.
Aztec and Inca
Spain
They weren't strong enough to conquer any empire or to form a empire
They weren't strong enough to conquer any empire or to form a empire