Spain's Long Term Goals

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Overall, Spain’s long-term goals were simply to acquire as much gold and resources they could get from the land, the colonists never thought of working alongside the natives. They went straight to enslaving the Indians and taking their resources. The Spanish just wanted to conquer everything in their sight. They never stopped and thought about focusing on one location and forming a stable colony there first until moving on to the next mass of land. The Portuguese has a different mindset when it came to their long-term goals. They focused first on Asia and had Brazil as a little side project until, the French attempted to intervene. Portugal wanted to expand and form stable empires wherever they reached. Even though both Spain and Portugal used