What were Spain’s goals for exploration and colonization in the New World? Check all of the boxes that apply.

Spain’s explorers sought a route to Asia and valuable resources such as gold. Spain also claimed territory for its empire and worked to spread Christianity among Indigenous peoples. Roanoke was an English settlement, and driving English colonists out of South America was not one of Spain’s general goals for exploration and colonization.

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