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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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