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Lela Lemke ∙
CortésHernan Cortez and the Spanish conquistadors.
Franciso Pizzaro.
Religious freedom
The most likely reason he described them that way was to make it appear that they would be easy to defeat.
Spain had many soldiers available to help it profit from exploration.
Jamestown
History as common memory
Profiting from the fur trade
Most people south of the United States still speak Spanish