Expansion of the new world
One of the main motives for expansion and colonization was because of the abundance of gold and silver in the Americas. ... Within the span of a few decades, a seemingly endless stream of conquistadors flocked to the New World in search of fortune and land. ... The Spanish conquistadors murdered and pillaged for three hundred years making Spain the richest Nation in the world. With all the riches the new world had to offer, it seemed only a matter of time before the church made its claim. ... Sent to the new world by the Church these missionaries accompanied ships and expeditions to spread the word of the gospel to the barbaric heathens of the new world. ... Spanish conquistadors and fanatical missionaries were among many of the wonderful gifts Europeans brought from the old world. ... It wasn’t until these explorers set foot on the new world that the natives saw diseases such as these. Their immune systems were incapable of fighting such vicious infections, and because if this diseases such as smallpox and measles spread throughout the native cultures of the new world. ... The intermixing was not only physical but economically and agriculturally as well, the Indians provided new types of agricultural crops, and the colonists introduced livestock and horses to the new world.