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Hernan Cortes was searching for gold in the Americas because the Spanish conquistadors were motivated by wealth and power. The Spanish crown had sponsored expeditions to find and extract gold from the New World to fund its empire-building endeavors. Cortes saw wealth as a way to gain favor with the monarchy and increase his own social status.

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