The main goals in the expansion were to Christianize the Indians, to gain trading power, to expand their empire, and of course, to gain the great mineral wealth of the Americans. ... The chief employment in all these countries was agriculture, and both males and females, as with us, were brought up to it, and trained in the arts of war- (54). ...

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