If we take time to travel into the past, around the 1500 or 1600, people were almost exactly the same in a sense that people wanted to better their economy and appear in the other people’s eyes, the greatest of them all. Because of this simple fact it got people thinking and also in a way motivated to become the worlds past superpower. There were two in fact in the European continent and these included England and Spain, which at that time were some of the best colonization’s the people had ever seen. At times they would go into fights and argue because of how good and powerful they were. Although England and Spain had their differences, they both were just as hungry as the other and that strived them to go on looking for new things, like discovering …show more content…
But the intention is the Spaniards was simply to explore. There was a sudden demand for things, and one person wanted to be better than the other, and because of that people would go out of their way to do things. For example, explores such as Christopher Columbus attempted to go west on Asia, but by his mistake however, he ended up in Cuba, and he called the people on that land, Indians. As they noticed all these things, the Spaniards considered the Americas less of an obstacle on their path and now saw it as a place or resource. In 1518, a man by the name of Cortes arrived into Mexico with his group of conquistadors. These conquistadors were after gold and they exterminated native parts practicing their military skills, trying to turn South America into a Spanish Empire. When the Spanish can into the land they brought a sickness called smallpox’s. They unknowingly carried this and this also helped wipe many people …show more content…
However this all came tumbling down because Spain made a system which the authority extended into the local communities. Because of this the colonists weren’t able to establish any political institutions. Now if we flip to the other side, the British would be restrained way less, this being because the English came up with a system where the English queen had a very unimportant role. The English had economic differences as well. The Spaniards were more towards the side of gaining treasures, this being because that would mean less time and energy on agriculture and trade like the English did. But the Spaniards quickly came to realize that their method of economic ways were less effective in the long run because the gold will eventually run out. The British unlike the Spanish concentrated a lot on permanent settling, family life, and would mostly outnumber the natives. Despite all the people that died due to the Spanish bringing in a virus, the ration of the native Americans to them was way bigger.
Many of the English civilians wanted to leave, and it wasn’t because the explores said they did, but because the civilians had gone through a lot having to do with religious persecution and left them confused about their faith, but most importantly, the enclosed movement that took away farms from a lot of the people. The outcome of this was it left a lot of people without any pay but even worse, no food.