In the mind of a fifteenth- or sixteenth-century European explorer, we can be confident that there was a keen awareness of the importance of not only discovering a new trade route but also how secure any new route might be. History tells that Spanish and later other European adventurers traveled to the New World for “gold, glory, and God.” Each of those elements certainly played a role in the motives of individual conquistadors such as Cortes and Pizarro and the groups of ambitious entrepreneurs who funded and accompanied them on their wild journeys.
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