The Spanish were in search of gold and other riches.
The enlightenment was a period of new ideas and world views fed by a better understanding of the world and our place in it
If you're asking about sovereign nations, then false.
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At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan and all three agreed that, in exchange for potential crucial Soviet participation in the Pacific theater, the Soviets would be granted a sphere of influence in Manchuria following Japan's surrender.
