what fundamental factors drew the europeans to the exploration, conquest, and settlement of the New World?

Question

us history
new world
spain

Answer 1

greed. they wanted to look for new trade routes, new people to trade with, and new resources to harvest. The world is run by greed.

Answer 2

initially it became the quest for a safer passage to the far east by a western direction so as to enhance their commerce and markets there. besides the indisputable fact that, it became additionally the quest for gold that brought about such explorations which would be used to finance destiny crusades against the Muslim international. those first 2 factors are interrelated. Passage east for the Europeans the two went by land routes that have been controlled by the many times opposed Muslims, or by sea around Africa, which became risky and patrolled by Muslim pirates. looking risk-free passage and gold ought to remedy the two a sort of problems with the Muslims. As time went on, besides the indisputable fact that, the Europeans grew to become aggressive with one yet another for markets and colonies contained in the recent international. The wars they have been scuffling with in Europe took on a sparkling area contained in the recent international. administration of the seas turns right into a key situation in fixing this conflict.

Answer 3

Well, the Spanish came first. The were interested in 2 things, bringing religion to the natives and searching for Gold. They were also interested in exploring the vast land they had taken in the name of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabelle.

When the French came, they were not interested in saving souls but in trading with the indigenous people of the New World.

The British were looking for a place to send all their riff-raff and undesirable types. The prisons were full and they wanted to get the undesirables out of England. They used the same tactic to send other undesirables to the Penal Colony in Botany Bay, Australia.

Quickly following the dregs of British society were the adventurers, tradesmen, people looking for a challenge... a lot of men but few women brought with them.

Finally were the settlers but, keep in mind, the Jamestown Colony was predated by the Establishment of Santa Fe as the seat of Spanish Government by 10 years.... the English were NOT first... which is what is wrongly taught in schools.

Anyway, the original English settlers were adventurers... the religious types, who were fleeing the Black Death as much as they were religious persecution, came later.

Answer 4

Spiritual qualities like the Eternal Quest for knowledge, courage,
daring, adventure.
For people who try to knock white society. Tell them that there
were people in the "New" world from Lemuria, a brown skinned people who migrated to India too. As well as red-skinned people, decendents from Atlantis, who also migrated to Spain, the
Basque people. Both those land masses no longer exist.
There were also Hebrews, (book of Mormon), Egyptians, and
many others here before europeans. And they originally came
for the same spiritual reasons.

Answer 5

Their environment allowed for the invention of better weaponry and resources giving them many more advantages. Curiosity and basic greed did the rest. Europeans also have 5% neanderthal DNA and that may also be a factor..... who knows. They were very bossy weren't they?

Answer 6

Grab the resources as per your desire.No Care what will be the price world have to pay.(Just killing and killing)
Come under my flag.(Ameriac) and give me your, blood be honour to a slave .
Spain will fight for his freedom from these.But can't just hopes

Answer 7

Greed, plain and simple.