History 2501E Lecture Notes - Smallpox, Teamwork, Bartolomé De Las Casas
31 Jan 2013
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Portugal was looking for trade and not really to settle anywhere and they especially wanted a port. Brazil was not all that important to them because there were not a lot of materials that were worth trading for. The spanish were different however because they had a history of conquering (after the re-conquest) and thus there were two very different styles of settling but both required huge amounts of money from investors. When italians did their trade they would make groups of men and send ships to areas they felt there was money to be made and the profits would be divided and spanish and portuguese organized in a similar way. Columbus had problems when he left for the indies because the queen has invested in the trip and many other important people had pooled their resources so he had to come back with something.
