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The most important factor in the Spanish Conquest of Potosi was disease. It is said that over half the Aboriginal population was killed by diseases which they had no natural immunity towards. While the Spanish did have superior weapons such as cannons, this was not the main contributing factor to their conquest. The natives outnumbered the Spaniards by millions, however by the time conquest occurred most them were killed, or left starved by disease.

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The most important factor in the Spanish Conquest of Potosi was disease. It is said that over half the Aboriginal population was killed by diseases which they had no natural immunity towards. While the Spanish did have superior weapons such as cannons, this was not the main contributing factor to their conquest. The natives outnumbered the Spaniards by millions, however by the time conquest occurred most them were killed, or left starved by disease.

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Explain what Cortes meant by the statement that the Spanish had “arrived in America to serve god and his majesty and also to get riches”.

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Explain what Cortes meant by the statement that the Spanish had “arrived in America to serve god and his majesty and also to get riches”.

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What do you think was the more important to Spanish Conquest – the canon or the disease?

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What do you think was the more important to Spanish Conquest – the canon or the disease?

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Why were the Spanish obsessed with Gold? How did that make them destroy the civilizations they encountered?

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Why were the Spanish obsessed with Gold? How did that make them destroy the civilizations they encountered?

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Explain the rise of Potosi as a global city in the 1500s. How may this compare to the Bolivian tin mines of the 20th century?

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Explain the rise of Potosi as a global city in the 1500s. How may this compare to the Bolivian tin mines of the 20th century?

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How did Spain waste a lot of their wealth, and in doing so, finance the age of European conquest?

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How did Spain waste a lot of their wealth, and in doing so, finance the age of European conquest?

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Spain wasted the majority of their wealth through paying off their debt to numerous other countries; there was a poor management of finance that was largely geared towards creating the illusion of prosperity instead of investing in long-term schemes that would benefit the majority of the population. Select members of the population benefited from the income of wealth from Spanish colonies, which caused great economic distress amongst the majority of the population. However, Spain's commercial treaties with other European nations greatly stimulated their maritime efforts and gave them access to ports and goods they might not have been able to access otherwise. Spanish debt was a great economic boost for the countries it was indebted to, and created an economic imbalance wherein their creditors were benefitting more from their colonies that the Spanish were themselves, and investing that wealth into establishing their own colonial practices.

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The Spaniards described seeing gold as if they were in 'Seventh Heaven' and lifted the gold as if they were monkeys, whilst giving them joy and excitement. Although, with all this being said, because of the discovery of gold, the Spanish destroyed the civilisations they had encountered by setting them on fire and burning everything they knew, no matter how valuable or priceless in was. By the end of this, the Spaniards were left with nothing, no food, water, clubs, buildings, shields and etc. All in which led to blood baths where people struggled and fought amongst one another, in hopes of getting their hands on the lions share of gold, silver, emeralds and diamonds.

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The Spanish loved gold as if they were 'monkeys' and 'as if to put new  life into them and lift their hearts'. The Spaniards even went to war for it, in Tenochtitlán that they had recently reconquered fought hard for their city and the riches that lay within. Once this war was one the amount of gold and riches that was won through bloodshed the Spanish were still unhappy and for years dug at the soil and tried to find more gold with the lake's bottom trying to find presumably hidden objects by the Indians. The Spaniards would seemingly kill and torture anyone just to get their hands on any kind of riches.

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the Spanish crown had acquired a great debt due to which the majority of the wealth they received from latin America and the silver mines the likes of potosi only enriched the other European economies more than Spain it self. Spain controlled less then 5% of the trade with its own colonies and the interests on the Spanish loans kept increasing due to a great numbers of wars the crown dragged itself in and eventually the great Spanish empire was just a image because it never benefitted from the wealth of its colonies.

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The silver in Potosi attracted knights, soldiers, monks and others. In 1573, 'Americas fountain of silver' as it was referred to, had a population of 120,000. It was one of the richest cities in the world. It attracted people from all over with its decorated churches, gambling house, fiestas and theatres.

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The disease was the most important factor in the Spanish conquest of all parts of their empire as they were extremely outnumbered by the natives of the region and even with their superior weaponry they could not hope to take them all, the diseases they carried killed and weakened the armies of the Aztec and Inca empires making them much easier to conquer

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It was their duty to serve god by destroy any heretics they encountered, spread Christianity and to pillage as much of the natural resources they found during this religious expansion in order to strengthen the Spanish empire. As well as getting personally rich, as Cortes himself funded his own conquests. Likely wanting to increase his own power and standing within the Spanish empire and history itself.

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This statement describes the motives for the arrival of Spain into the America's. That is, to spread Catholic religion and obtain wealth from foreign materials and products such as gold, silver and spices

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This statement describes the motives for the arrival of Spain into the America's. That is, to spread Catholic religion and obtain wealth from foreign materials and products such as gold, silver and spices