Spain wanted to protect its colony in Mexico from other Europeans
Answer:
The conquistadors who swept through the New World were armed with steel swords forged in the Spanish city of Toledo. Settler communities in North America and the Cape of Good Hope were able to capitalize on European-invented steel rails, steel locomotives and steel ships to transform their model European economies.
The group that invaded the Slavic homeland beginning in the ninth century was A. Varangians.
Varangian was a Greek and East-Slavic term for a Viking.
