Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 captioning performed by vitac there are these briti britishtrading posts. And theyre going to be involved in that story when we discuss that document. I want you to get a feel for those. And basically, have a sense of new mexico as a kind of salient moving up in the southwestern north america. A colony really surrounded by a lot of areas not in any way conformed by the spanish. That will help form our discussion when we get into that document. Now lets talk a little bit about why the spanish presence is somewhat halting. If you look at the spanish empire as a whole, what do you figure is your top priority as an emperial official in somewhere like madrid or mexico city or lima . Protect the mines. Exactly, in places like mexico and peru. Are there any lucrative mines . Later on, yes. If you think about the spanish empire as a whole, it extends to the southern portions of south america, includes peru, bolivia, chile, south america. T
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