.Spain and Spanish America shared an interesting relationship during the 18th century. Spain had conquered many areas in the Americas and it controlled large land areas in South America calling it Spanish America. Spain was interested in wealth and dominance, so they needed money to feed their desires and the resources in America gave them just that. One of the valuable resources Spain sought was silver and they used Native American workers to extract these goods. Spain was tied economically to Spanish America because it needed the resources to finance the homeland since Spain found itself involved in countless wars with neighboring European nations, moreover a political relationship also developed between the regions. Spain establish a self-sustaining
