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Why did the Spanish come to the Americas?

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They were looking for a shorter route to India and China.
They made landfall in the west indies in an attempt to find the western passage through to the east indies. It was an accident which became profitable.

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=they want to come to America because they thought it was Indian conteinet.=

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They were looking for gold.

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