2.Europeans seek new trade routes is the most significant because it opened up new trading opportunities. 3. The Renaissance encouraged, among other things, a new spirit of adventure and curiosity. 4.Prince Henry’s goal was to reach the source of the treasures in the East and to spread the Christian faith. Vasco de Gama accomplished his goal.
Columbus an Italian believed he could sail west across the Atlantic and reach India. With sponsorship from the Spanish Monarch Columbus, with 3 ships and 90 sailors discovers the New World. He arrived at the Bahamas first encountering the Arawak Indians. Columbus never in his lifetime acknowledged that what he discovered was not India. Millions of natives in the New World died due to European illness making it easier for the Spanish Conquistadors to move in and take over much of the Americas.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail to go to east India to find gold, instead of getting to east India, he landed in the Bahamas. Thinking he had arrived in India, Columbus assumed the people who were settled in the Bahamas were Indians. He had discovered the New World which is now North and South America. This is a major turning point in history because if Columbus hadn’t went on this voyage, he would have never discovered the New World. No one had really known that part of the world even existed until Columbus arrived there.
April 27, 1521: Was Magellan Worth Protecting? One of the reasons Magellan was worth defending was because of his navigational skills. Document A, which is a map that comes from various sources, states that the voyage started on September 20, 1519. Two hundred eighty men departed with an armada of 5 ships, given to Magellan by the king of Spain. Magellan sailed down the coast of modern-day Brazil and .Argentina after crossing the Atlantic.
Dr. Ivan Van Sertima speaks of Christopher Columbus’ diary, which spoke of his many voyages and discoveries. After his second voyage, the Portuguese informed Columbus of Africans in large boats with merchandise sailing west of the Cape Verde islands. The Portuguese were aware of African navigation because they had been in Africa since 1415. Not only did the Portuguese tell Columbus of Africans but Natives in the Olmec civilization spoke of Africans as well. The Olmec civilization, was the first civilization established in the Americas.
Columbus mistook the area for India and called the natives Indias. When he returned to Spain late 1493 he believed he had discovered a new trade route to India. By the time of
10. When Columbus landed in the New World, he believed that he had reached the Indies; thus, he thought, the people he met were Indians. Even though more than 500 years have passed since that voyage, the native people of the Americas are still often referred to as “Indians 11. Before Columbus was a famous admiral and governor of the New World, he was a pirate, or Privateer, who helped attack Moorish merchant trips 12. Columbus was very religious and believed God had called him to make his voyages.
There are many motives for which the Europeans pursued imperialism in the 19th century, either for national prestige and glory, social Darwinism or even the White Man’s Burden. However the motive for which is most importantly noted for is profit from trade of materials and slaves from the new colonies of the European Empires. The colonizers traded slaves from Africa to the Americas and gained access to raw materials spread all throughout Africa. Europeans began conquering Africa and Asian in the early 16th century. Portugal was the 1st country to colonize.
In the year of 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered the ‘New World’ which we now call North America while trying to find an alternate and faster route to the Indies. Upon his arrival he discovered indigenous people of North America. Between the years of 1492 and 1607 The French, British, and Spanish arrived and colonized the area. Between the three countries lied many social and political differences that affect the indigenous people greatly. Columbus’ journey to find a quicker route the Indies began in 1942 after he was given the funds from the King and Queen of Spain, Ferdinand and Isabel.
Access to commodities such as fabrics, spices, and gold motivated a European quest for a faster means to reach South Asia. It was this search that led the Portuguese down the coast of West Africa to Sierra Leone in 1460. Due to several technological and cultural advantages, Portugal dominated world trade for nearly 200 years, from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries. While, in the fifteenth century, the rest of Europe was decimated by the Black Plague, Portugal was protected by its physical isolation. Additionally, Portugal had an unusually strong national identity, due to its natural geographic borders, allowing the pooling of the considerable economic resources necessary to fund these ambitious explorations.