Motivations for colonization: Spain's colonization goals were to extract gold and silver from the Americas, to stimulate the Spanish economy and make Spain a more powerful country. Spain also aimed to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
Spain was considered to have as three main goals behind its expeditions to North America: the expansion of its empire, the attainment of wealth, and the spread of Christianity. It is easily forgotten that monarchies were not possessed of endless wealth.
Answer:
restore dignity and independence to those countries
Explanation:
Well, European countries didn't exactly solved all the problems they had when WW1 ended. The only reason why WW1 ended was because Europe got tired of fighting and wanted to clean up the aftermath of war. And Germany was also in devastation after WW1 and Hitler blamed all of this to the Jews which led to WW2.
No one knows the true reason for the mysterious decline and fall of the Mayan civilization but many believe that it was because the Maya had exhausted their environment and surroundings to the point that it couldn't sustain a large population anymore. This would have caused all the Maya to abandon their cites or die off. Again this is just a popular theory of scholars but the answer is that no one really knows. All that is for sure known is that the Classic cites were soon abandoned and the Maya region collapsed. Hoped this helped.
