The New World offered many resources, such as avocados, corn, cocoa, tobacco, tomatoes, peanuts, potatoes, sugar cane, sunflowers, molasses, rum, quinoa, vanilla, grazing lands, forests for lumber, alpacas, llamas, beef stocks, and ores such as gold. Lots of silver came from what is now Bolivia, helping Spain build their empire. "New France" easily covered 1/3 of the North American continent, from what is now Nova Scotia to what is now Louisiana. The fur trade fueled their rise to power, but they never came close to Britain's North American colonies.
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They were brought to the Americas for slavery.
They built colonies and missions.
He didn't have a conquest in North America.
Spain strengthened its colonies in the Americas by offering free land to Spanish aristocrats. Many of the their descendants still in those areas today.
In a word,gold, in two words gold and silver
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Spanish and French explorers were interested in the Americas primarily for wealth and resources such as gold, silver, fur, and land. They also sought to spread Christianity and expand their empires by establishing colonies and trading networks in the New World. Additionally, they were searching for new trade routes and opportunities to increase their power and influence in the region.
They used the military to defeat the native population.
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They were brought to the Americas for slavery.
The spanish established colonies in the americas.
They built colonies and missions.
French explorers focused on establishing trade partnerships with Native Americans and setting up trading posts, while Spanish explorers were more interested in conquering lands, establishing colonies, and extracting resources. The French tended to have more cooperative relationships with the Native Americans, employing a more peaceful approach compared to the more aggressive tactics of the Spanish.
Of all the Africans brought to the New World, sixty percent were brought to Spanish colonies.
Spanish language first came to the territory now occupied by the Americas because it was the language of the explorers and settlers who set out from Spain's Caribbean outposts and from New Spain (Mexico) in the early sixteenth century.