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How would you describe the relationship between the indigenous people of the New World and the Spanish conquistadors?​

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They obtained huge quantities of goods/gold, and they had conquered millions of Native Americans. They used Native American labor to establish silver mines in Peru and Mexico to finance their new, much greater empire.
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