Besides religion, european countries had many reasons to begin exploring.
how were the motives of the spanish for exploring the new world similar to those
of the french and english?

The excuse was religion

Explanation:

All of them had the same excuse, expand religion and God´s name, but the trueyh is that all these and other countries wanted to find GOLD, SILVER SPICES and people to work for them.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

the anwser is a) to prevent military conflict