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Originally posted by mdiinican
reply to post by stephenwephentephen
The Spanish didn't take that knowledge because they had no interest in it. They were there with a direct intention of gaining wealth, in gold or spices or other precious and semiprecious materials, and a secondary stated objective of converting the natives to Christianity, which didn't really go over too well. they had no intention of adding useful parts of conquered cultures to their own.