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.
=they want to come to America because they thought it was Indian conteinet.=
They were looking for gold.
In search of wealth.
The impact they had was that the spanish's wanted to come and discover America
As slaves for the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.
Spanish colonization of the Americas was created in 1525.
Spanish colonization of the Americas ended in 1821.
Both Britain and France challenged Spanish power in the Americas.
Columbus tried to convey the Americas as an exotic, interesting place. He wanted to report back favorably to the Spanish who funded his journey, and entice the Spanish to come to America and colonize or explore.
Yes, Spanish explorers explored and settled in the Americas before the Pilgrims arrived in what is now known as the United States. The Spanish expeditions in the Americas began with Christopher Columbus in 1492, while the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620.
The spanish did acually own America after the whites fought off the Indians then the whites and spanish fought over America . The whites won and took over American land.
Gold was known to exist in the Americas.
In 1492, with the arrival of Columbus in the Americas.
The spanish