What economic strategies did the spanish use in their american colonies

The Spanish used many economic strategies in American colonies such as conquering the lands so they can get more resources, trading goods in order to gain more profit and spreading Christianity.

Explanation:

The Spanish Colonization in America started in 1492. Their main motivation was to get rich and it was done through various forms of exploitation. They plundered lands in order to extract resources such as silver and gold. They were very successful in this mission when they conquered the Inca Empire. They also traded their goods in order to have more weapons, food, paper, etc. They also spread Christianity, which was an important religion for them. It had a huge impact to the indigenous people. It made the people believe and follow the rules of the religion.

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the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year, equal to about 9.46 trillion km (5.88 trillion mi). light-years are used in measuring interstellar and intergalactic distances.  

parsec  

a unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to about 3.25 light years (3.08 × 1016 meters).  

parallax  

the apparent angular displacement of a celestial body due to its being observed from the surface instead of from the center of the earth (diurnal parallax or geocentric parallax) or due to its being observed from the earth instead of from the sun (annual parallax or heliocentric parallax)  

absolute magnitude  

the magnitude (brightness) of a celestial object as it would be seen at a standard distance of 10 parsecs.  

apparent magnitude  

the magnitude of a celestial object as it is actually measured from the earth.  

redshift  

an increase in the wavelength of radiation emitted by a celestial body as a consequence of the doppler effect.  

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