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What Was The Driving Force Behind Europe's Interest In The New World

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The driving force behind Europe’s interest in the New World was economic, and as Europeans began to settle in the Americas and initiate cultural change, they brought with them their values and economic institutions, the differences was that the Spanish came for the gold and the English came for the land.
Spain’s new world expectation wore financed by the monarchy to enrich, which later brought other Europeans colonies into the New World. In the Spanish colonies, guided by Columbus not only Indians wore enslaved but also force to accept Christianity. Spain sent in the New World only soldiers and explorers, no family or women, this, of course, led to intermingling and intermarrying and it soon produced a new class of people, the mestizos. Even
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