Answer:
The correct answer to the question: What role did the English privateers play in challenging Spain´s empire, would be, D: They stole the content from Spanish ships.
Explanation:
After Columbus reached the Americas, the Spanish and Portuguese continued sending voyages into the newly discovered lands and settled colonies there. For a very long time, Spain, mostly, monopolized the trade between Europe and the Americas and this ensured that the country became very rich in goods. As the benefits of having control over such rich lands became known to the other European powers, they too wanted a piece of the goods, and so, they started attempting to pass through the blockade that Spain attempted to put on the Americas to prevent settlers from other European nations from reaching them. However, countries like Britain, and Denmark, wishing to have a piece, began to send merchants under the Spanish radars to trade with the colonies. And then, not much later, pirates and privateers appeared. Their intent, was to loot contents from the Spanish ships, both coming to the Americas and leaving the Americas, and from time to time, they also attacked port cities, like Cartagena de Indias, in Colombia. Their purpose was clear, and now it is known that some of these pirates were even supported in secret by the English Crown.
