AN - Gordon College

Top Ten List #3: 1450-1750. Impacts of Interactions. Conquistadores. Top Ten. Motivations – Both the individual conquistadors and their patrons were motivated by wealth (gold, silver, spices, and slaves), power, prestige, increasing opportunities and markets for Spanish/Portuguese trade, building a Spanish/Portuguese empire, and most likely to a lesser degree, spreading Catholicism to the ... ................
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