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Spain, they became the most powerful country in Europe in the 16th Century as they were first to discover the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific Ocean. They rapidly capitalized on this new discovery, and through there conquest of almost the whole of Central and South America, they conquered the two most wealthy and powerful empires in the Americas; the Aztec and the Inca.
Both saw colonies win their independence from European empires. Apex
Empires are when one nation rules another.
Britain, France, America, all the new countries made from the German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman Empires.
They thought that North America had lots of gold, silver, and exotic foods, and that who ever ruled North America was even more powerful.