>land on the North Eastern seaboard of North America is directly adjacent to Spain which made it the most accessible and logistically simplest to settle>"Naw amigos, let's set up out colonies WAY THE FUCK SOUTH and on some irrelevant islands in Caribbean and leave the Northeast to the British o algo"Why did the Spanish do this? Were they retarded?
>rare exotic goods>good natural harbors>good climatevs>no goods>no good natural harbors>shit climatewoah
>>18484511>good climatethey literally settled in deserts and humid jungles anon
>>18484508got bullied by the british and french into the shit america
>>18484517I mean good for growing crops. Sugar cane, Tobacco, Cotton.
>>18484511>implying they couldn't have settled east first and then set up outposts or expand westwards from there>>18484528This is the real reason. Spics don't want to admit it but it's true
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>>18484508you can't even get an iberigypsy to serve a plate of fries and uno beero to some drunken bong tourists without seething, how the fuck do you think those lazy cunts would ever settle somewhere like new england
>>18484508The spanish were mainly looking for 1.Gold/Silver/Material wealth2.Masses of sedentary natives to impart fedualism on and exploit (and "convert")After establishing a base in the Carribean/Panama, they went for Central Mexico and Peru that had massive amounts of material wealth, and the state-organized mass sedentary populations they could easily piggyback off of to exploit. Then after that went after places like Chile, central america, colombia, Venezuela that were more lacking in material wealth but still had a decent amount of population/organization to force into encomiendas.Notice how they got jobbed in Araucania/Gran Chichimeca where it was much harder to enforce serfdom on a population that had never had large-scale state societies, they got run out out the american southwest and it took them a long while to finish off the Mayas (and they didn't really "finish" them off either). All these areas except for maybe Gran Chichimeca lacked gold though.
>>18484511Also the american eastern seaboard has a ton of good natural harbors, interior rivers and intercoastal waterways, extremely OP geography, they just didn't have the population/material or agricultural wealth that the spanish were interested in.
>>18484508>he has never heard of the sargasso sea
>>18484508trade windsthis is the age of sail, closest in practice isn't as the crow (or the plane) flies
>>18484832>they got run out out the american southwestShit that never happened. It was the Mexicans, post independence who lost control to the apache there.
how come the trade winds were less of an issue for the British and French?
>>18486415>how come the trade winds were less of an issue for the British and French?The trade winds were only a problem on the return journey, but an advantage on the outward one. The English would first sail south to catch them, reach the Caribbean, and then head north to the colonies.
