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How did Spain get rich?
Almost overnight, Spain became very rich taking home unprecedented quantities of gold and silver. These were stolen from the Incas and the mines that the Spanish came to control. The Spanish also were able to purchase an unprecedented quantity of imported goods from around the world – including Europe and China.
How did Spain become wealthy in the American colonies?
Spain grew rich from the gold and silver it found after conquering native civilizations in Mexico and South America. Fixated on religious conversion and military control, Spain inhibited economic development in its American colonies.
What did Spain gain from colonization?
Positive effects. Spain’s purposes to colonize Mexico and the other colonies were getting new land, resources, and to spread Christianity. As they conquered Mexico, they got new land. Spain plundered lots of resources from their colonies, opened up trade and get profits and spread Christianity.
What was the main reason the Spanish were able to take control of the Americas?
Motivations for colonization: Spain’s colonization goals were to extract gold and silver from the Americas, to stimulate the Spanish economy and make Spain a more powerful country. Spain also aimed to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
What was Spain’s economy based on?
Spain’s diversified economy includes manufacturing, financial services, pharmaceuticals, textiles and apparel, footwear, chemicals, and a booming tourism industry.
How did the Spanish get to America?
Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean and gaining control over more territory for over three centuries, the Spanish Empire would expand across the Caribbean Islands, half of South America, most of Central America and much of North America.
When did Spain gain their independence?
December 6, 1978
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What caused the Spanish to spend so much money abroad?
Even the Spanish themselves began buying foreign products, resulting in a lot of cash leaving the country. In addition, inflation stifled local investment, with the grandees spending their dough on conspicuous consumables instead. For the latter part of the 1500s and on into the 1600s Spain was a debtor nation, spending more abroad than it took in.
Why did Spain have to go to Latin America to trade?
Due to this, Spain had to go to other European nations to run things like finance. Spain became so reliant on the other Europeans that they controlled only 5\% of trade with their own colonial possessions. Latin American became a European business and not just a Spanish business.
Why did the Spanish take over the Americas?
Meanwhile, Spanish priests discovered a new continent full of, in their opinion, savages whose souls needed to be saved. So Spain descended on the Americas with a cross in one hand and a gun in the other, determined to convert the natives while stripping their lands to fill the Spanish treasury.
How did Spain become so reliant on the other Europeans?
Spain became so reliant on the other Europeans that they controlled only 5\% of trade with their own colonial possessions. Latin American became a European business and not just a Spanish business. Other Europeans owned 90\% of the silver that came through Spain and the state had to spend 65\% of royal revenue to pay off debt.