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AP U.S. History Exam 1.1. Which of Spain's reasons for establishing colonies in North America is most clearly represented by the excerpt?
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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you
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by the three g's colonial spain's leading cellphone provider Take
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a look at this excerpt nine five hundred years And
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had they remember committing a natural offense virtue and banking
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family And the question which of spain's reasons for establishing
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colonies in north america is most clearly represented by the
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excerpt And here your potential answers All right but what
- 00:37
is this excerpt Tell us Well castillo writes that they
- 00:41
were sent to north america to exhort the inhabitants of
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this country no longer to adore such gods nor sacrifice
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human beings to them Sounds like we're dealing with god
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rather than the gold or glory of that the famous
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spanish trio So let's see which answer best fits that
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bill Does this excerpt represent spain's desire to colonize north
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america because of a increasing poverty and war within europe
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Well actually there was all kinds of fighting in europe
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at this time over land and resource is which is
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a major reason that explorers turned their gaze abroad in
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the first place But this excerpt is more about what
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they found when they got to world not why they
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left in the first place that knocks out a and
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c does The excerpt described spain's colonization efforts as a
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result of de demand for profitable natural resource is and
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new markets that sounds more like the gold part Not
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god polishes off dia's well which means that spain's reason
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for establishing colonies in north america as explained in the
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ex ert was be the desire to convert native populations
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to christianity There it is the excerpt suggests that the
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conquistadors were actively trying to push the native americans away
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from their religion Toby is the right answer In fact
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all the spanish asked was that the native americans wait
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until the more virtuous men arrived to explain things and 00:02:06.948 --> [endTime] more fully Talk about some delayed glorification
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