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Spain's conquest of central Mexico and the Andes made Spain the wealthiest and most powerful nation because of the abundance of gold and silver which it gained. This large amount of gold and silver it was able to obtain was sent to its national treasuries allowing it to become a threat to any other European competition.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spain was capable to gain huge amounts of silver and gold then sent them to its national reserves. Spain tried to use a huge amount of money to go counter to the rest of the powers of the world. The kind of power that Spain designed turned out to be a threat to France, England, and the Netherlands.

 

EXPLANATION:

• The Spanish Empire

Colonial development under the Spanish Empire was started by the Spanish conquistadors and established by the Spain Monarchy across its missionaries and administrators. The motives for colonial development were commerce and the expansion of the Christian faith by indigenous conversions.

 

• The French Empire

French people, or farmer-settlers, eked out a presence along the St. Lawrence River. French fur sellers and missionaries reached far into inner North America, discovering the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes region. These forerunners provided France somewhat expanded imperial demands to lands that nevertheless persisted steadfastly under the territory of indigenous peoples.

 

• The Dutch Empire

Seventeenth-century French and Dutch settlements in North America were moderate compared to Spain’s massive global kingdom. New Netherland, New France persisted minor business operations centered on the fur business and did not entice the arrival of migrants. The Dutch in New Netherland detained their controls to Long Island, Manhattan Island, the Hudson River Valley, and what later known as New Jersey. Dutch trade commodities distributed extensively amid the native peoples in these regions and also voyaged well into the inner of the continent along pre-existing routes of native trade.

 

• The British Empire

At the beginning of the 17th century, the English had not built a permanent colony in the Americas. Over the following century, they overtook their competitors. The English urged emigration further than the French, Spanish, or Dutch. They built almost a dozen colonies, sending hordes of immigrants to inhabit the land. England had undergone a dramatic increase in population in the 16th century, and the settlements emerged a hospitable place for those who encountered congestion and relentless poverty at home.  

Thousands of English migrants came in the Chesapeake Bay settlements of Maryland and Virginia to labor in the fields of tobacco. Another flow, this one of devout Puritan families, wanted to live as they thought scripture required and built the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, and Rhode Island colonies of New England.

 

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KEYWORDS : Spain’s conquest, Andes and Mexico

Subject  : Advanced Placement

Class  : College

Sub-Chapter : American History