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∙ 10y agoBecause they wanted to conquer the native settlers
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∙ 14y agoBecause they were looking to obtain precious metals.
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∙ 12y agoSpanish settled in their vast empire which they called new Spain.
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∙ 11y agoto eat more
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What were the Spanish borderlands located?
There are two major Spanish borderlands. South west of Spain is the country of Portugal and north east of Spain is France.
What did the Spanish create in North America to protect their colonies from other Europeans?
they establishe precidious
Spain's north American colony from which spanish intruders periodically threatened English settlers in Georgia and the carolinas?
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In the late 1700s what territory did Spain own in North America and how did this pose a problem for the US?
In the late 1700s, the territory that Spain owned in North America was much of North America west of the Mississippi River and claimed Florida and the port of New Orleans. This posed a problem for the U.S. because the New Orleans port was key to trade and sometimes the Spanish threatened to close it.
What were the major powers in north America 1700s?
Spain and Britain
What were the Spanish borderlands located?
There are two major Spanish borderlands. South west of Spain is the country of Portugal and north east of Spain is France.
What areas of North America did the Spanish explorer?
The Spanish conquistadors explored the Spanish borderlands that spanned present-day United States from Florida to California.
What did Spain build in the borderlands of New Spain?
Spain protected its North American holdings though a series of forts known as presidios. These were roughly distributed along the present U.S.-Mexico border to prevent invasions from other European powers, as well as to defend the populations in the New Mexico and California territories from Native American raids.
What part of Spain is castillian spanish spoken?
Most of Spain other than the north-west (Galicia), the north-east (Catalonia) and the south (Andalucia)
What is your Spanish speaking neighbor to the south of Spain?
There is no country south of Spain that is "Spanish speaking" in North Africa. There is a minority of Moroccans who speak Spanish because of the previous colonization, but Spanish has minimal official or signage uses.
How did the Spanish Language Spread?
It spread from Spain when Spain colonized much of South America and some of North America.
What country created the Spanish language?
What the world thinks of as "Spanish"--that is, Castillian Spanish--is from Spain. It spread to other countries when Spain was colonizing much of North and South America, as well as parts of Africa.
Why do some North American countries speak spanish?
They were once colonies of Spain.
The North African exclaves of Ceuta and Melila are associated with which country?
They are Spanish exclaves, associated with Spain.
How did the Spanish figure into England's decision to establish a perm ant settlement in north America?
Spain had a lot of territory in North America. England was competing with Spain to dominate the New World at the time.
Why is spanish spoken in south and north American so much?
Spanish is spoken so heavily in North and South America because Spain had a large number of colonies on these two continents, and imposed Spanish on the native inhabitants.
What did the Spanish create in North America to protect their colonies from other Europeans?
they establishe precidious
