Select the two items spain was searching for in the new world.

1) a route to the orient
2) trading partners in america
3) riches
4) allies to spanish armies in europe
5) the ruins of atlantis

name the explorer who conquered the inca.

a) francisco pizarro
b) hernando cortes
c) juan ponce de leon
d) ferdinand magellan

1- The correct answers are 1 and 3. The two items that Spain was searching for in the New World was a route to the Orient, and riches.

2- The correct answer is A. Francisco Pizarro was the explorer who conquered the Inca.

Explanation:

1- The Spanish Crown financed the expedition of Christopher Columbus to the West, since he needed to find a new route to the spice markets of China and India, to access the riches of these lands and trade with their people.

2- Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador who, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, led the expedition that would begin the Conquest of Peru. Later he would be appointed governor of New Castile, with seat of government in the City of Kings.

He is remembered for having managed to impose on the Inca Empire with the help of various local chiefdoms, conquering the aforementioned imperial state whose center of government was located in present-day Peru, as well as establishing a Spanish dependency on it.

the options of this question are:

a) president wilson’s desire to form the league of nations  

b) germany’s desire for reasonable conditions of surrender and fair treatment.  

c)europe’s desire to maintain original pre-war borders  

d) the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions

the correct answer is d) the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions.

the allies’ desire to seek retribution for germany’s actions had the greatest influence on how germany was treated after world war i.

it is estimated that the cost of wwi was around 260 billion dollars, and the allies wanted germany to pay a big part for the losses. the allies also wanted to impose land losses as well as limit the army of germany and confiscate their industrial resources to apply the retribution.

in the united states, president woodrow wilson created the fourteen points to be delivered to germany, as a peace program. he presented these documents to the u.s. congress in january 1918.