They kept plantations to accumulate wealth.
The Spanish forced indigenous people and African slaves to work on sugar plantations and in gold mines in their colonies in the Americas.
To work. Due to the Great Dying there was a very small indigenous population, especially in the Caribbean, which is where most New World plantations were located. Most common plantations in the New World were sugar plantations.
They owned plantations, mines and ranches...
plantations, slaves, and horses
Plantations began in the New World in the early 1600s. The Spanish started them first with the English, Portuguese, and Dutch following closely behind.
They were called plantations, they grew one crop in the plantation.
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They were called plantations, they grew one crop in the plantation.
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They were called plantations, they grew one crop in the plantation.
They were called plantations, they grew one crop in the plantation.
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