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.
They were brought to the Americas for slavery.
yes
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
They were brought to the Americas for slavery.
yes
The spanish established colonies in the americas.
They built colonies and missions.
Spanish was the leading colonial power in the Americas in the sixteenth century. England did not have any presence in what is now the United States until the early seventeenth century.
Spanish became the dominant language in the Americas due to the Spanish colonization in the 16th century. Spanish explorers, conquistadors, and settlers spread the language across the region, establishing it as the primary language through institutions, education, and trade. Additionally, intermarriage between Spanish colonizers and indigenous populations also contributed to the language's diffusion.
They wanted to claim land for themselves.
Of all the Africans brought to the New World, sixty percent were brought to Spanish colonies.
Peru and Mexico