The Age of Exploration was a period in human history spearheaded by the Portuguese in which the Old and New World came into contact and began the process of globalization. So began an exchange of anything and everything from technology and food to religions and diseases. The natives were introduced to new ways to farm by using horses and iron tools brought by the Europeans. An unforeseen consequence that arose from the contact between the natives and Europeans was the introduction of many never before seen diseases such as smallpox to the natives. The result would be wide scale death throughout the native populations of the Americas. For those who survived and for the generations to come. the linking of the Old and New World would be beneficial …show more content…
For example. horses were nowhere to be found in the Americas until now. They made hunting and the nomad lifestyle that many natives led much easier to support. The Europeans arrived bearing steel armor and weapons that were far more advanced than what the natives themselves bore. The cultural diffusion between the two groups would eventually teach the natives how to augment old practices and tools such as the iron plough for farming. Even jobs and skills were taught, “...the natives have successfully learned all the Spanish trades…” as Bernal Diaz states in The True History of the Conquest of Spain (Document 1). The exchanges did not just end with physical things, something akin to the Crusades also took place. The explorers and conquistadors sought to convert the natives to Christianity and spread many of their own …show more content…
Without the desire to acquire a safer trade route over sea to Asia, no one would have ever tried sailing west to get east. “The explorers of the fifteenth century and early sixteenth centuries did not set out to make a revolution in knowledge, but that is what they achieved,” wrote Christopher Farman in “The Ocean Adventures” found in Voyages of Discovery (Document 4). This quote shows how many of the explorers did not set out to find the Americas, but once they knew what it was the Americas were quickly integrated with their own world. Many of the foundational thoughts and ideas of today’s society would have never developed if not for this link between continents. Arthur M. Schlesinger makes note of this writing, “In fact it was precisely the contact with the Americas that stimulated Europe to develop further some of the principles we take for granted today as the basic minimum of human rights…” in Columbus on Trial (Document 5). Without all of this exploration the world would have continued to be stuck in isolation until inevitably some other group of people decide to explore the sea. Contact between the Old and New world would have happened at one point or
The Age of Exploration was a time period that has had significant influences in the modern world. It was the moment in which Europe was brought out of the Dark Ages and into an era of discovery. The risks taken within the 15th and 18th century allowed both positive and negative outcomes to be introduced to the European Exploration. There were many motives for this era, and many outcomes came about. However, they were both negative and positive. To summarize the motives of this age, a simple combination can be stated. The main purposes of the Age of Exploration was God, Gold, and Glory.
As it states in document one, the Spaniards spread their knowledge to the Natives and taught them how to read, write, thresh and sell harvest, make bread, breed cattle and so many more. They taught them all these things so that the world can develop faster, and due to them keeping their word, cultural diffusion started and spread rapidly. Later on another system, known as Columbian Exchange, spread. It was a system which, according to document three, “brought benefit to all peoples.” This system started the exchange of plant and animal during the European expansion into the Americas. The introduction of the horse, cow, and various grains vastly increased the food productivity all around the globe. Although, this is only the second of the many genius’ the explorers had
If it weren't for the age of exploration we wouldn't know lots of things. The european age of exploration is a time when countries started to travel to find new things. They mainly traveled by water to find all of the items. If it weren't for our ancestors we wouldn't have multiple food, resources, and material. This all mainly started because of christopher colombus and the ottomans.
The Age of Exploration was a period from the early 15th century and continuing into the early 17th century, during which European ships traveled the world to search for new trading routes and partners to feed burgeoning capitalism in Europe. This period was rooted in new technologies and ideas growing out of the Renaissance. So far this points towards positive characteristics like a growing economy, discovery, new technologies, and cooperation between neighboring nations. But their was sacrifices that were made to reach such excellence. The trade monopolies that were bypassed fell, this may seem positive as well, but economies would fall with them. The natives of foreign countries would be subjected to invasion, disease, sabotage. And the land
The Age of Exploration had more impact on world history than the Protestant reformation because it allowed for the Columbian Exchange to happen. Secondly, Europe was influenced by the Colonization of the Americas. Finally, the Age of Exploration influenced a new wave of business and trade practices in Europe. Some people believe that it allowed new foods to get into different parts of the world because if one country didn’t have one type of food then the other country would trade for it. the Europeans not only brought over food, they also brought over livestock for transportation.
During the late 1400s and early 1500s, the Americas were found and the Age of Exploration started. The Age of Exploration an era when the Europeans found new places and new trades. New items affected Native Americans in different ways. The natives were put into slave labor which harmed the Native Americans. Lastly, Native Americans were destroyed due to different diseases.
Devastation is defined as great destruction or damage done to something or someone.(Google.com) Not only did the Age of Exploration bring great joys of new land and new people, but it also brought lots of massacre and devastation. The age of exploration and European Colonization is considered a tragedy because two populations of people lost their culture and lost many of their people. Multiple reasons for this are, African slaves were taken from their homelands and separated from their families, many natives died, and many natives lost their culture. One of the worst reason that The Age of Exploration and European Colonization is considered a tragedy because Africans were taken from their homelands and were separated from their families.
The European conquest of America began as an offshoot of the quest for a sea route to India, China, and the islands of the East Indies, the source of the silk, tea, spices, porcelain, and other luxury goods on which international trade in the early modern era centered. Profit and piety-the desire to eliminate Islamic middlemen and win control of the lucrative trade for Christian Western Europe-combined to inspire the quest for a direct route to Asia. Long before Columbus sailed, Europeans had dreamed of a land of abundance, riches, and ease beyond the western horizon. They hoped America would bring them a
The beginning of the exchange happens, the plants and foods. The diets of the two cultures happened to be different, and so they altered them. The Western Hemisphere had many new different options for the Europeans to choose from. There were three new foods that the Europeans did not recognize, but took advantage; corn, which was called maize, it basically grew everywhere, sweet and white potatoes, and many different kinds of beans that the Europeans loved. (Shi and Tindall 37). Some other examples of the food the Indians shared with the Europeans are peanuts, peppers, tomatoes, pumpkins, pineapples, avocados, cacao, chewing gum, and the list goes on. The Europeans, on the other hand, presented to the indigenous people, the greatest foods that still go on to this day, which are, rice, wheat, barley, wine grapes, melons, coffee, olives, bananas, daisies, and many more. The transactions of these foods were so important to both cultures because when they combined them, they were amazingly rich in taste. Europeans did not have pepper, but when adding it to the food it became something so delicious it could not be real. Also, they did not know that in the future young people would conquer the New World with the positive effect that corn left them (Shi and Tindall 37). Both of these groups basically repaired their culture for good.
In the world, the age saw many explorers in search of a faster trade route to China, which led to the discovery of North America.
*The Age of Exploration was the flourish of trade. Colonizing the New World would see the extinction of god, glory, and gold. The new World would be affected by European diseases which killed most of the native population in the Americas and created a need for workers.
The Age of Exploration contains both benefits and harms to the groups of people, animals, and land that is associated. The damaging effects of the Age of Exploration were directed, for the most part, upon the people and land of the New World. With the treasure and innovation brought by Europeans in their ships were the
Columbus and other European explorers expect to find in the Northwest Passage, which they believe it was a shortest way to Asia. Also, the Europeans explorer wanted to spread Christianity, mineral wealth, and gold. The explores wanted to have new land in order to expand their Empire.
European expansion into the New World brought a lot of changes, motivated by boosting trade and economy, some countries failed to see the harm done in accomplishing it. It was the colliding of two worlds that were not ready to meet that suddenly and abruptly. Without the brave explorers and colonists however, America may have not been discovered, or noticed for many years. The New World gave the Old World something and vice versa it is obvious today one needs the other to survive and that is what we all strive
The main idea behind the voyage was to find a faster route to the Indies, as well as introduce Christianity and The King and Queen to the new world along with its inhabitants. As said by Columbus “Your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians, and princes who love and promote the holy Christian faith, and are enemies of the doctrine of Mahomet, and of all idolatry and heresy, determined to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the above-mentioned countries of India, to see the said princes, people, and territories, and to learn their disposition and the proper method of converting them to our holy faith; and furthermore directed that I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.” Like said, it shows that Columbus wished to find a faster route, so Spain could easily be able to obtained traded goods which would produce more profit for the country of Spain. This kind of shows that Spain needed to find this route due