Pros And Cons Of The Spanish Conquests

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The first conquests were made by the Spanish and Portuguese. They had desires to spread their religion into the newly discovered by Columbus “New world”. After the expedition Columbus headed, in which he landed in the Americas and first colonized the islands of Cuba, puerto rico, and Hispaniola, colonization rapidly expanded. Conquistadors primarily poor nobles, descended on America with hopes of bringing Catholicism to the new lands while extracting great riches in forms of gold and art. Religion and self-interest combined to be such desirable possibilities that hundreds of thousands of poor Spaniards took the journey across the ocean with hopes of finding riches.

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