The actions of competing European nations had consequences. The Aztecs had extended their control over Mexico. The Aztecs wanted rewards from the people of Mexico like goods, and precious sacrifices. The Incan empire was older than the Aztecs, but they did not have a written language. Every peasant male was ordered to work unpaid for the government. Parents named their children after certain object so they would not have to work. When the Spanish arrived in 1532, they were looking for gold. They found a mountain of silver, and mined 150,000 tons of silver. This made them the richest nation in the world only temporarily. The Spanish Armada took place in 1588, which caused the Spanish to spend a lot of money, and borrow money they could not pay
