They are many reasons why the Spanish were interested in exploration and conquest. One reason was to get wealthy. Private explorers , like Christopher Columbus, would travel to retrieve riches from other places in the world. A second reason was to receive recognition and publicity . The record books put down the name of the finder and his/her country. A third reason was to prove a theory that they believed in. Christopher Columbus expected that the world was round, and figured that he could sail west and arrive in C
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