<span>Columbus's voyage was about the acquisition of gold and spices. He started his long voyage with the aim to find India, where he would get those two things from, however, somehow he ended up in the New World, which he thought was India, but was in fact what came to be America. Thus, mistaking America for India, he named the inhabitants of the continent Indians. </span>
Mexico during this era focused more on Farming rather than anything else. I think that is why many food products come from Mexico anyway.
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The south was mainly agricultural, cultivating cotton in some form was most people's entire livelihood, creating sort of a cultural divide from the north. plus, the menial and arduous labour in the south was incredibly appealing for slave owners, but this didn't happen in the north where factories and mills were everywhere and staffed by non enslaved people. cotton united the two by the south growing it and the north turning it into textiles and other finished products. together they had quite a good system since each part was able to specialize
