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The Spanish Crown Wanted to Colonize, the Right to Conquer
Most of the young spanishmen who took on the dangerous voyage to the caribbian did it ase they were looking for adventure and riches. They plundered and enslaved their way to wealth in sp Spanish colonies like hispaniola, modern day dominican republic, in haiti and cuba. Of course, gaining wealth was a motivation but there was also something else. Since the eleventh centu european christians had engaged in various forms of holy wars, called crusades in spain,. It took hundreds of years for christians to regain full control of the iberian peninsula from moslems. And what was the year they finally did it? 14 92,