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How did the French and Spanish differ in their goals for exploration?

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The Spanish were concerned with setting up feudalistic holdings in their colonies and completely exploiting Indigenous labor. The French generally took a lighter approach. They sent far fewer colonists across the Atlantic and were more concerned with establishing and maintaining commercial ties with Indigenous peoples.

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