Okay, so obviously nuclear weapons proved to be a threat that would possibly destroy the world. The Soviet Union and the United States build up a stockpile of nuclear weapons and used the fact that the world may be destroyed to keep the other country at bay.
<span>Native people were being brutalized and oppressed under this system. Many wereliterally worked to death. Missionaries there had become involved in trying tostop this abuse of native peoples. Queen Isabella did not want the nativestreated as slaves and viewed them as a free and independent people. As a resultof the abuse, the encomienda system was abolished by the Spanish crown.</span>
They started colonies because they wanted more villages, food, and water.