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Spain started to colonize earlier than the French. Spain enslaved natives while the French established trading relations with the natives.

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- Spain had a bigger head start with colonization
- France wanted to trade more
- Spain took a much more aggressive approach with the Native Americans than France did

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Both were a catholic nation.
Spain treated the natives worse than French

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- Spain had a huge head start of colonization
-France had more interests in trading

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1. Spain's goals were to spread Catholicism and to keep up with rival Portugal. They conquered by turning Natives against each other and treating them poorly.
2. The French were looking to grow their resources meanwhile treating the Natives better than their Spanish counterparts.

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Similar: Both wanted to acquire wealth and resources from other countries
Spain: Conquered the natives and used them as labor for gain
French: Befriended the natives, such as in the Northern America fur trade

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- Spain more of a conquest
- Spain had wanted gold and land
- Spain had wars with the Native people
- French wanted to trade
- French learned and lived with the Native people

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The French and Spanish interest in colonization were both sparked by their respective monarchs. While both motivated by the desire of economic expansion, Spain seemed to also have religious motivations. Additionally, France seemed to colonize more North, such as Quebec, while Spain is often thought of as possessing Atlantic island control. France was interested in building relationships with other groups, while Spain seemed to have a conquest attitude.

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Alike
- expanding Catholicism
-both brought disease
Differences
-spain was a patriarchy ; France was
- france foster good relations with the natives: Spain did not
- Spain discovered what is now know as St. Augustine
-France stayed in North America mostly & Spain was in central America

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french - wanted to trade with the natives
Spain - wanted to conquer central/ south America
Both - They both wanted to spread catholicism

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The French were primarily interested in establishing commercially viable colonial outposts

France fostered good relationships with the Native Peoples, paved way for further exploration

Goal of Spanish was to expand Catholicism and gain commercial advantage over Portugal

Spanish relied on disunity among the diverse groups in the Aztec Empire to capture
Tenochtitlán

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Contrast
-France was nicer to the natives
-Spain was cruel to the natives
-Spain sailed to conquer
-France sailed for wealth
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-Spanish goal was to take out Islamic rule and expand Catholicism.
-spain had more power and  more conquistadors.
-france had a relationship with the native americans when they first arrived
france was into trading fur. food etc.
spain just wanted to take over and have power and spread religion.

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Spanish
-Landed in Central and South America
-More aggressive and violent to the Natives

France
-Landed in North America and Parts of the Caribbean
-Traded with the Natives and had  good connections

Both had plantations run by slaves

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- Spain started exploration early, French were slow
-  French didn't want to get involved as much
- Spain had a larger army and better navy

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-Spain had help from the church
-Spain was much more aggressive with the Native Americans for Gold
-France had help from the Native Americans
-France wanted to be involved in the Fur Trade

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Spanish -
* colonized South & Central America.
* abused Natives for labor and resources
* Pushed Catholicism onto Natives
*Wanted to gain advantage over Portugal (rival in colonizing)

WHILE..

French -
* colonized New England and Canada areas of the new Americas.
* cooperated with Natives for resources and land
*Goal was trading (fur)
*Gets some sugar colonies in the Caribbean

IN COMMON : Both successfully colonized New World for profit and power. Interacted with natives.

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French and Spanish Colonization Comparison

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French and Spanish Colonization Comparison

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French

- resources from the Americas like furs

- fostered good relationships with natives
-relied on slave labor
Spanish
-sponsored Columbus
- cruel to the natives

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Spanish
- Compete with Portugal (land and commercial opportunities)
- Spread Catholicism

French
- Good relationships with Natives
- Interested in trading

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- Spain is more manipulative: Cortez turns native people against each other
- Spain has more force, more conquistadors
- France, particularly Champlain, fosters good relationships with natives
- France is attempting to trade, not necessarily conquer
- France allies with the native people to help the native people instead of as a means to ultimately conquer them
- Spain seems to be more driven by religion

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France:
-Main goal was trading for fur
-Created alliances for economic interests
Spain:
-Wanted to rival Portugal
-Spread Christianity
-Develop new trade opportunities

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Spanish were before the French
Spanish sponsored explorers
Spanish colonies were firmly settled but French were only there for trade.
Spain wanted to spread Catholicism

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- spanish colonization took first initiative
- spain had geographic goal (west indies)
- french colonizers worked with rather than against native peoples
- france got involved out of jealousy
- spain used more slave labor

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Spain: More aggressive/ violent, Not as organized, Fought amongst themselves
French: Not as violent, good relationship with natives, better alliances/trade

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-Spanish colonized the south americas and central
-Spain colonized first
-French colonized the north americas(founded Quebec)
-French formed relationships with the natives and forming Trading Networks
-Spanish however killed off all the natives in their land

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Spain…

-          Began colonizing in the 1500s

-          Came to find gold

-          Crueler

France…

-          Began colonizing in Canada

-          Came to colonize an Empire

-          Nicer

Both…

-          Wanted to convert Indians to Christianity

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Spain was more for religious purposes
Spain wanted to gain a commercial advantage over Portugal
France was looking for fur more then Gold and precious metals, but to exchange for glass beads
france fostered good relationships w native peoples

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Spain was about exploring and spreading Catholicism. Spain would take over the Americas after defeating empires. For France, the county believed in building relationships with the natives. Spain was the opposite of that. Spain was a patriarchy.

Both were trying to get ports out for trades and trading  networks.
France was colonizing in the North America and Spain was Central America.

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French created strong relationships with the natives and used this relationship to push further into the continent, as well as developing a lucrative fur trade that would help build the French into a power house. On the other hand the Spanish did not have good relations with the natives as they took down the Aztec empire by working on the divisions that existed within the Aztec empire. Not only this but Cortez the conquistador who lead this expedition was given Malinztin who would created an inter-marriage which would be utilized by the Spanish in helping take down the Aztec Empire.

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France: able to form relationships with natives; heavily traded fur
Spain: colonized in a violent way and overtook natives; searched for land and gold
Both: used slaves

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1. Spain was more focused on wealth and status whereas France was focused on spreading Catholicism.
2. The French created good relationships with natives, whereas the Spanish attacked and took advantage of the natives.
3. France focused heavily on furs rather than other commodities.
4. The Spanish started the colonization process before the French.

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1. Spain was before the French in exploration.
2. Spain sponsored Columbus and other explorers for their journeys to discover new lands.
3. Spanish colonies were more settled and wanted to take over the peoples land
4. French were nicer to the native peoples of the land they discovered.
5. French was more focused on the trade aspect than they were with power.

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Spain
-Began colonizing before England
-Didn't work with the natives
-Cortes relied on disunity to capture the Aztec capital
-Seem more hostile
-Expand trade routes

French
-Worked with the natives
-Champlain made alliances with Heuron & Algonquins against the Iroquois
-Appear to be less violent than the Spanish
-Interested in trading fur

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SPANISH
-First European settlers
-Went from Islam to Catholic
-Wanted to expand Catholicism and take reign over Portugal
FRANCE
-Joined race in 16th century
-Good relationship with Natives
-Fur

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1) Spain began exploration before France
2) Spanish colonization mainly focused on the riches of the areas
3) The French used similar tactics as Spain when taking resources
4) France was nicer to the natives

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Spain:
-Established the first European settlements in the Americas
-Catholitism
-Before French
-Had a backing from the Church
-More driven by religion (defenders of the faith)

France:
-Looking for fur, fish, and trade opportunities
-Better relationships with the native people, treated them better because they needed to establish a fur trade
-Primarily interested in establishing commercially viable colonial outposts
-Gets sugar colonies from West Indies

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1. Both want to get ahead (land, materialistic things, money)
2. Both anted to spread religion
4. Both wanted to exploit resources
3. France wanted to maintain peace with the native people while Spain wanted to absorb what was already there

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3. France wanted to maintain peace with the native people while Spain wanted to absorb what was already there

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-commttied to expanding catholiism

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The Spanish colonies were much more developed compared to the French colonies. Spain also began their colonization of the New World before the French. The Spanish began to come to the New World in search of Gold while the French came to the New World to begin an empire. The Spanish's goal was to spread Christianity while the French did not have a religious motive.

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* Spain: Pope gave them land, as well as Portugal
France: mad because they were left out of that agreement

*Spain: colonize for religious spread and rivalry with Portugal
France: colonize for wealth/commercial (Fur trade)

* Spain: Goal was to hit India first
France: Straight to "New World" (Americas)

*Spain: Conquered the natives/ treated them brutally
France: Worked with the natives