Big Ideas Many Spanish explorers went to Mexico and America after other explorers brought back gold and other valuables so the other Spanish explorers thought that if they went they would get gold and other things too like the explorers before them.
Conquistadors did not find much gold in North America.
The Spanish brought enslaved Africans, to replace the thousands of dead American Indians.
A Spanish priest wanted to protect all of the Indians, so he convicted the Spanish King to make a law to protect them, but they got ignored and still mistreated the Indians.