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What were the motives for Spain’s conquest of the Americas?
There are three words which can be used to roughly sum up the motives for Spain’s conquest of the Americas: God, glory and greed. I will go on to explain each of these in depth and introduce several further motives. ... This helps us to understand Spain’s primary motive for the conquest. ... The fact that there were few priests on board the earlier missions to the Americas could be taken to mean that religion wasn’t the principal motive of the Spanish. ... It could be said that there was an air of competitiveness for the conquer of the Americas. ...
I think that another motive for the conquest of the Americas was the total lack of knowledge that everybody had about the mission. ...
So far I have discussed some of the motives which encouraged Spain to coordinate the mission and send Columbus sailing on his way. One must remember that, once his ship hit dry land, the conquest was not immediately complete. What followed were years of further assignments as the conquest spread through the Caribbean Sea and the Americas. ... They had accomplished the first part of the mission, to find land, but I think that to overcome an enormous empire, there must have been some alternative dominant motives in the conquistadores’ minds, as well as those, which I have already mentioned above. ... This novelty must have been exciting and the new sense of power over others that they felt inspired them to continue until the conquest was complete.
In conclusion, I have outlined the most obvious motives for the conquest but it is probable that each individual, on board all of the boats, which sailed to the Americas, had his own personal reason for success.
Approximate Word count = 1566
Approximate Pages = 6.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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