How did the conquests made by explorers Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro affect Spain? They made Spain a colony of Portugal. They opened the fur trade with American Indians. They drained the Spanish treasury. They brought great wealth to Spain.

The conquests made by explorers Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro affect Spain because They brought great wealth to Spain.

Both explorers' main goal in undergoing their expeditions is to bring glory and wealth to Spain. They will go to unexplored places and exploit the wealth and resources of these places. They wealth and resources that they were able to harvest will then be sent back to Spain, leaving nothing to the natives of the place. 

i belive the classic sword and a shield would do

when a country suffers, for example, a drought period, the market product is affected for a low offer, in this case, potatoes; the government has to tax to the households, which have to give more money for the potatoes which they consume, that situation make them consume substitute goods even through loans, it could increase the financial market movement and the inflationary phenomena, the business has to increase salaries in order to the employees could buy a more expensive food (potatoes) and in order to inflation tha business had to buy expensive supplies in the factor market, while the rest of the world have to gain more money to consume the same amount of potatoes.