One thing that happened when Spain explored the New World was that B. Spain set up colonies in large areas of both continents.
When the Spanish reached the Americas, they set up massive colonies that spanned across both the North and the South of the continent.
In North America, their Mexican colonies spanned from the area now called California all the way to Argentina in the South of the Americas.
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