Most economies are considered mixed because most have some portion of the means of production under government control. Most economic systems also have some element of the market or capitalism. ... The most vulnerable members of society benefit from a mixed economy because they are offered some social safety net.
They wanted to push in North America because they knew that by gaining control over this continent or at least parts of it would mean a lot to the spanish crown and would also be rewared.
There were episodes of widespread famines, and also of deadly epidemics. Soil exhaustion, overpopulation, wars, diseases and climate change cause hundreds of famines in medieval Europe.<span> Around 1300, centuries of European prosperity and growth came to a halt. Famines such as </span>Great Famine of 1315–1317<span> slowly weakened the populace. Few people died of starvation because the weakest had already succumbed to a routine disease they otherwise would have survived. A plague like the </span>Black Death<span> killed its victims in one locality in a matter of days or even hours, reducing the population of some areas by half as many survivors fled.</span>
John F. Kennedy predicted that america would have a man on the moon before the end of the 60's.