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The benefits seen by the Portuguese in the lands they conquered were also witnessed by the Spanish. The lands the latter conquered were “colonizable and readily accessible to seaborne invaders” (Ibid, 58), their populations were also disunited and had “no military organisation” (Ibid) just like the those conquered by the Portuguese. Likewise, the material wealth gained from both the Caribbean and those in the dimensions of the Inca Empire meant that the Spanish could finance their voyages and promise wealth to their seamen. Blunt takes this further and argues that “European success was due” to “being well placed geographically to exploit the gold and silver of the Americas and the colonial trade that these resources made possible”, and so they