English vs. Spanish Colonizati
Both England and Spain got into colonizing the Western hemisphere because of the possible wealth in it. England wanted to establish itself in North America with agriculture and trade. Spain more or less wanted to strip mine South America for gold and silver. Although both countries were very successful, the staying power of their success is reflected in the way they went about colonizing. Spain was into making quick money with their colonizing by conquering the territory, scouring the land for gold, silver, copper and basically anything else that shimmered, and then just going back to Europe to control South America with their new money. England, on the other hand, established itself in North America. The Catholics, who were being driven out of their country at the same time explorers were establishing colonies for England, were planning to stay in America permanently unlike the Spanish.
I think that in the long run, England was more successful than Spain. Although their aggression got them their riches (7 million pounds of silver alone), Spain's mass amounts of money cause for severe inflation in their country. England was able to establish well-defined international trade routes and connections with many countries, along with agricultural industries in the Eastern United States. In 1493, when Ferdinand and Isabella sent Colombus to America, he was instructed by them to make Catholic conversion of the natives a priority. As exploration of South and Central America continued, so did the spreading of Catholicism due to all the Catholic Spanish explorers. In North America, the religion wasn't a priority at all so it didn't spread as much as Catholicism. Even today we can see that effect. In North America there is some Protestantism and it's pretty much localized to North-Eastern United States. On the other hand, Catholicism is
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