The image by Theodor de Bry depicts Christopher Columbus’s landing on Hispaniola in 1492. Upon establishing relations with native peoples, which best describes Spain and Portugal’s purposes for a continued presence in the Americas? opening political and economic relations with the Aztec and Inca empires taking enslaved persons to be returned to Europe to perform manual labor acquiring material wealth and converting native peoples to Christianity eradicating native peoples to make way for the unimpeded collection of material resources