The Spanish conquistadors who followed Columbus to the Americas in the early sixteenth century were primarily driven by...

  

• a fanatical desire to spread Christianity even at the cost of their own material interests.
• a desire to have areas in the new lands named after themselves.
• obedience to the wishes of the Spanish monarchs who dispatched them on a mission of conquest.
• a thirst for battle and riches as well as land in the conquered territory and titles of nobility.

ANSWER: The Spanish conquistadors who followed Columbus to the Americas in the early sixteenth century were primarily driven by a thirst for battle and riches as well as land in the conquered territory and titles of nobility.