The Spanish Empire would expand across the Caribbean Islands, half of South America, most of Central America. The reason for their settlement was Gold mining.
Step-by-step explanation:
- The overseas enlargement under the Crown of Castile was started supporting the superior power and Starting with the 1492 entry of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean and maintaining the power of vast.
- Within the 16th and the 18th century, Spanish wells in Mexico and the Southern part of America generated higher than 4 billion coins' worth of expensive ores.
- This comprised about 80 percent of the world's silver production and 70 percent of gold at a time when these expensive ores were the most universally admitted foreign money.