ABSTRACT
The Spaniards customarily adopted some cultural traits from the invaders, rejected others, and totally transformed yet others to yield an original product. The Spaniards were and are inveterate dreamers, but always with an eye attuned to "reality," that is, what in their conception reality should be—recall the nature of "invented" worlds. The Spaniards imposition of their Culture on the conquered people included their own adaptation to the new circumstances, and hence a transformations of their Spanish Culture. In Spain during the same time, gold and other riches came in and then went out just as quickly to other areas of Europe that were beginning to experience the rise of science, industry, and early capitalistic enterprises, thus producing goods the Spaniards wanted. The Spaniards conquered territory by force or by a "spiritual" conquest on the part of the religious orders.
