HIEU 201Chapter 15

1.      European expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was promoted by merchants who wished to increase their profits by eliminating the Muslim and Venetian middlemen. 2.      Columbus's discovery made Spain a wealthy and powerful nation because those who followed him, like Cortés, found great quantities of precious metals. 3.      Hidalgos were lesser gentry who believed that holy war was a just means of acquiring wealth and power. 4.      Convert...