There was a vast economic potential that had yet to be tapped by any other European power at this time in history, ironically enough when they did successfully reach China the Qin dynasty was already much more technologically advanced than the Europeans that had arrived and viewed their offer as invalid due to their perceived "backwardness" technologically.
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they never really interacted much with the west except for stuff like the silk road.
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compensation to U.S. citizens who lose jobs
Encomenderos are also mandated through these grants to convert Natives to Christianity and endorse Spanish as their primary language. Native peoples are forced to engage in hard labor and subjected to torture, extreme abuse, and, in some cases, death if they resist (Nies, 1996).