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 Spanish thought the Aztecs were not as developed as themselves because they did not have the same level of culture in the eyes of the Spanish. The Aztecs did not have weapons, ships, or other technological advances that the Spanish had. The Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs because the Aztecs did not have the modern advances. ... The chief employment in all these countries was agriculture, and both mal...

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• Grade Level: High School

Spanish conquistadors set out hoping to trade goods for riches, but quickly enslaved the Native American people to make them search for gold and silver. Millions of Native Americans died either from disease, malnutrition, or Spanish torment. ... Since slavery was viewed as unchristian and illegal in the early years of the Spanish colonies, special permission for slavery had to be granted (called the asiento). ... Mining silver Peru, Africans worked alongside with Native Americans. ... Ships sailed from Columbia to Panama where African captives were transported to South America. ...

• Word Count: 2584
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• Grade Level: High School

With the decline of the Amerindian population, labor from Africa formed the basis of the exploitation of the gold and agricultural resources of the export sectors of the Americas, with sugar plantations absorbing well over two thirds of slaves carried across the Atlantic by the major European and Euro-American powers. ... African capacity to resist Europeans ensured that sugar plantations were established in the Americas rather than in Africa. ... The epidemiological impact of the Old World destroyed not only Native American societies, but also a potential labor supply. ... Without this diss...

• Word Count: 4994
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. ... Their investment in human labour continued and grew and in 1488, the profit margins generated were so large that they almost solely funded the Christian nation's war against Islam in North Africa. ... That being the Portuguese settlers in the Americas or the "New World" were given loans with easy repayment and interest plans to buy more slaves and develop sugar plantations. ... The French Revolution lead to a huge social upheaval and the French Revolutionary wars between the new Fren...

• Word Count: 2679
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate