Not really. There were no spices to find in North America. They did find corn, tomatoes, and coco in South America, Mexico, and the American Southwest.
The main things the explorers of the 1500's wanted were: 1. A water route to Asia 2. Wealth 3. Trade goods 4. Fame
For spices
For spices
Two goals shared by Spanish explorers in the 1500s were to find new trade routes to Asia for spices and other valuable goods and to spread Christianity to indigenous populations in the New World.
Spain
Astrolabes, maps
Approx. 1500.
There was less demand for all the spices from the English, French, and Spanish. This is the reason why their spice prices went down.
Spain sent out a few
Spanish explorers brought them in the 1500's
As explorers in the late 1400's and 1500's.