European Exploration In The Nineteenth Century

There were many factors that led to the European exploration. Out of the many factors, God, gold, and country were the three main ones. God was a major factor because everyone wanted to please God and spread Christianity all over the world. Gold was also a major factor because if you made a discovery, you could make al lot of money off of the discovery. Finally country was also a great factor in the European exploration because when an explorer brought something back for the country than he could be praised.

The European Exploration was a time where Europeans explored new places, bringing new ideas to Europe. These explorations were a major factor in taking Europe from a “Dark Age” to a Renaissance. There are many causes that led to these great accomplishments, and the Renaissance.

The effects of European exploration were mostly positive. The exploration led to cultural diffusion, the Colombian exchange, and the modernization of goods as well as cities. The end of isolation from Europe and Asia brought a new beginning to the Americas. As the Natives perished under the wrath of the Europeans, the European empire grew rich from enslavement. Although this caused great disdain until the 1960s (and even still a little today), the effects of European exploration changed the world for the better because it lead to the key elements that still affect society today- cultural diffusion, the exchange of goods (globally), and the modernization in technology.

European nations in the 15th century began exploring new lands with three motives: religion, wealth, and glory. It was made possible by advances in naval fleet building and navigation, first pioneered by the Portuguese. Europeans began to be involved in extensive exploration, coming in contact with Africa, Americas and their prime target Asia. The main targets of the pioneering Portugese and Spanish was to find and alternate trade route for the Indies trade and also promote Christianity to the new lands. As the century unfolded, the search for newer territories to colonize and shortern routes to the exotic land of spices and silk became the initial driving force for the intensive early exploration by the Europeans .

Should the European explorers, conquistadors, and settlers from the Age of Exploration still be glorified and celebrated in modern times? While many, including yourself, would probably answer with yes, I would have to answer with no because although there were many benefits of cultural diffusion, it came at a very high cost. The benefits of the exploration was very one-sided, the explorers were greedy and cruel, and it also caused much destruction to native culture and populations.

The Renaissance and the Age of Exploration brought on new ideas, technology, and tools that allowed the Europeans to travel across sea. The Europeans traveled to Africa in search of grains, spices, ivory, gold and slaves. Upon further exploration they found China. In China they found what they were searching for, they found silk cloth, spices and goods. The Europeans wanted to gain power by expanding their empire and search for gold. New technology, firepower, greed, and curiosity drove the Europeans to explore western

The desire for new trade routes by the Europeans was one reason the Age of Exploration began. In Document 1 it is written that the Europeans were afraid of the Ottoman Empire due to their rapid expansion and powerful military. This shows that Europe was afraid to challenge them and they were pushed to expand and find other trade routes. Document 2 depicts the power the Ottoman had and the control they held over Mediterranean Sea trade, therefore preventing the Safavid and Europeans from trading. Because of this, Europe

Prior to 1490s, Europeans had already sailed down to west coast Africa and were having a long-established trade in African Slaves. Moreover, European expansion basis was the ambition for the trade and resources of Asia. They tried to expand further to Asia motivated by ambition for the trade and resources of Asia. Three centuries after Columbus’s discovery of America, various Europeans which are Spanish, Portuguese, French, English and Dutch were dominating Native American. They were occupying the Western Hemisphere and imported African slaves to work them in plantations. To understand more about Europeans motive expansion to America, we need to observe their political, cultural and economical aspect, particularly Spanish, English and

Nationalism is the idea that one’syour country is superior to better than all the other countries. Being an imperialist country with this idea, a personyou could theoretically take any land where they have the necessary resources to further advance an industrial revolution. By Europe being under the influence of:; imperialism, nationalism and thea Iindustrial Rrevolution, they went to countries where Europeans consider themselves more civilized, and exploited those places for their raw materials. This plays a major part in history because Europe went to Africa for rubber, and slaves, treating the people as less than human. “But what made imperialism so broadly popular in Europe, especially in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, was the growth of mass nationalism. By 1871, the unification of of Italy and Germany made Europe’s already competitive international relations even more so.” (882) This implies that because Europeans

Before the start of the Age of Exploration, the Europeans struggled through the phase of disease spreading like the Black Death. Besides that, the Europeans were isolated and didn’t have access to the Silk Road. Their economy was based on the agriculture alone and the majority lives were poor and hard. This was due to the cut off of wealth, trade goods, technologies, and ideas from other countries. Later on, in 1453, the Fall of Constantinople occurred, when the Ottoman Empire invaded and expanded across the map (Document 2). By the mid-sixteenth century, Ottomans controlled the sea trade in the eastern Mediterranean, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and the rest of North Africa and their power extended into Europe as far as Vienna (Document 1). While other empires were experiencing their downfalls, the Ottoman Empire’s power seemed to be increasing. This empowerment and wealth frightened the Europeans. In fact, this empire is known as the strongest due to its tactical internal organization of

Trade was the first motive for European exploration. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Italians and Muslims had control of the Mediterranean. Because of this, countries such as Portugal lacked access to Asian trade routes, since they lacked the resources to break through “the Italian dominated trade of the Mediterranean” (Arnold 4) Such countries were forced to explore and expand in order to find new routes around the world to reach Asia, causing them to search for goods and trade beyond their borders, acquiring land and resources along the way, which in turn expanded European trade and economy. Another factor was Europe's search for new trade. European merchants discovered that they could no longer sell their merchandise in Asia and Africa, as many of their products were deemed inferior to their African and Asian counterparts. They attempted to sell “crude woollen cloth in Asian markets accustomed to fine silks and calicoes” (Arnold 3) The Europeans needed a new market, motivating them to send explorers such as

In the middle 19th century, a event that Americans extended their lands to the west (also called westward expansion) makes the relationship between the North and the South became serious and tensed.

The Age of Exploration and European Colonization should be considered a tragedy because of the ways slaves were treated that affected their life in many different ways as shown by the African slaves lacking basic rights, the harsh treatment of the slaves, and the slaves were removed from their homelands.

During the age of exploration era, most all people wanted to travel the seas. They wanted to find better trade routes ,and they were curious to see something new. Some people went in search of gold for wealth ,but others were travelling to claim new land for their country.

One of the main reasons European Exploration started snowballing is the fall of Constantinople. This reason itself is why European Exploration began. The Ottomans controlled all the sea trade in the eastern Mediterranean, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and the rest of North Africa, and the power extended into Europe also. After the fall of the great Ottoman Empire it had sparked curiosity into European explorers to discover new sea routes, lands, and territories. They were preparing for this moment and they took full advantage of it, and that was starting with Portugal. In “Document 3” the map describes “A map of exploration routes coming from Portugal. Rulers of Portugal began to fund voyages of exploration under the rule of Prince Henry, ‘The Navigator’ a nickname earned for his interest in new navigation technologies he brought to Europe from the Arab world.” In the map it had presented the new sea routes around the southernmost tip of Africa because they were attempting to find new routes to Asia. If the fall of Constantinople never happened and they remained with their power, the exploration would have never started up. Europe still would’ve been isolated in the Dark Ages with poverty, death, and overall a corrupt