History Of The Age Of Exploration

Magellan was given credit for being the first to travelling around the world. He had begun his voyage on September 20th, 1519. Magellan was fascinated and determined by the idea of finding the Spice Island. Magellan had done many minor explorations before. The exploration of Columbus gave him the idea of a successful expedition to The Caribbean. Magellan had asked the Portuguese king to support his expedition but the king had denied his offer. So he went to Spanish Royalty to ask for help which was granted. The Spanish King agreed to give an armada of five ships. Magellan should have been defended because he is determined, he has good navigation skills and he was religious.

Did you know that the Age of Exploration was one the most important time in history for the world. The Age of Exploration began in the early 1500’s in the nation of Portugal under leadership of Henry the Navigator. The first expedition to circle the globe was led by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. The causes of the Age of Exploration was to look for new trade routes and spread religion. The effects of the Age of Exploration were slavery and disease.

Christopher Columbus is an internationally celebrated explorer, due to his voyages to Central America during the Age of Discovery, a period between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries when explorers were sponsored by eastern countries to claim land. Columbus was an Italian explorer, on a conquest for gold and riches, who was sponsored by the monarchs of Spain, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, to travel to Southern Asia. Columbus proposed the idea of traveling from East to West, rather than traveling along the borders of countries and continents, such as Africa and Asia, to eastern countries for gold, spices, and other riches for the monarchs. When Columbus succeeded in landing in the New World, he believed he landed in Southern Asia, but rather he landed in Hispaniola, modern day Haiti and Dominican Republic. The “New World” was a term used for the area Columbus landed in, on October 12, 1492. When Columbus landed in the New World, it was inhabited by native people, who were used by the Spaniards to help navigate and understand the landscape of the islands and as workers to find gold. Columbus has a mixed legacy because he had positive and negative attributes; he made the Columbian Exchange, which increased biodiversity in the New World, and is an important explorer in American history, but also began the African slave trade and caused population devastation due to slavery and diseases in the native populations. The legacy of Christopher Columbus should be remembered as a villain because he was greedy for wealth and power, he introduced diseases to the New World, and enslaved and used violence against the natives.

Before 1453, Europe was in a period of time often referred to as the Dark ages. Critics claim that they had little access to any kind of trade, wealth or ideas that traveled along the Silk Roads. Meaning that the Europeans economy was based largely off of agriculture and they lived very difficult lives in poverty. This was until daring and courageous men decided to pull Europe out of the Dark ages and into the Renaissance (A Golden Age). The many voyages of European explorers and conquistadors are what brought Europe into what would become known as The Age of Exploration. This connected Europe to trade and cultural ideas along the east. Although the Europeans and conquistadors did conquer the natives and spread the base of slavery, these men did bring new ideas, technology, science and culture that ultimately result in a huge impact on history.

Exploration of the oceans was very popular during the time of Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan and English explorer Sir Francis Drake. Ferdinand Magellan was a young Portuguese man who enlisted under the Spanish king before he began his expedition to go on a trip around the world on the 10th of August in 1519 (“Ferdinand” 1). Ferdinand Magellan was in search of both fortune and fame, and he left Spain with 5 ships in hopes of finding a western course for the Spice Islands (“Ferdinand Magellan”). Sir Francis Drake led the English voyage for maritime exploration, sailing off in 1577 with 5 ships to embark on a journey around South America via the Straits of Magellan (“Francis”). Both voyages and explorers were met with several challenges in which they had to quickly resolve.

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 age of exploration was a time period that brought two different worlds together. European explorers were able to use the navigation to discover the new world. Theirs discovers caused a great change in both worlds but it also brought negativity to both worlds. In document 3 it talks about one of the causes of European exploration was different explorers had different reasons to explore the new land. Some went for wealth, glory, and gold, while others travel for their own interest.

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator and colonizer. In 1492, after many negotiations, he convinced the Spanish court, the monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, to financially support his voyage to the Indies by sailing west from Spain. However, not knowing that there were two continents, the Americas, between Spain and the Indies, instead of sailing to the Indies, as he’d hoped, he eventually reached what is now known as the Caribbean islands. Columbus’s main goals during his travels were to trade for gold, pearls and spices, and to conquer new land. He did everything he could to get those resources, and while doing so, he committed many dirty deeds: “massacres and torture” (Sanders). Although many consider Christopher Columbus a hero for discovering the New World, many also consider him a villain for committing so many terrible and inhumane crimes.

Christopher Columbus was an explorer, voyager, and navigator, with his first voyage in 1476. Columbus went on many expeditions to Africa, and he had a few African crew members on bard with him. In 1492, Columbus left Spain with the boat, Santa Maria, with Nina and Pinta at his side. Columbus was credited with discovering the Americas, and with colonizing it. Columbus went to sea as a teenager, and went on a lot of trading voyages, almost dying on one when his ship was attacked by French privateers.

Christopher Columbus was an Italian Explorer and Navigator. He is known world-wide for the discovery of the “New World”. Columbus is credited with the discovery of the Americas because of his expedition across the Atlantic from Spain. His hope with this expedition was to find a new route to India instead of the long voyage around Cape of Good Hope. Columbus made a total of four voyages to the Caribbean and South America, between 1492 and 1504. He has credited for opening the Americas up to colonization of the Europeans.

On the other side he discovered a vast body of water that he named "South

First of all, Ferdinand Magellan or Fernando de Magelhaes (as referred in the primary source) is a Portuguese explorer and navigator. He was born in a noble Portuguese family in 1480 and he spent his time serving the queen of Portugal since he was a young boy (Szalay, 2014). Magellan had participated in many of Portugal expeditions. He enrolled in the fleet of the Portuguese expeditions in 1505 and involved in many journeys includes the journey to India, Africa and even Malacca in Malaysia in 1511(BBC, 2014). According to Ducksters (2005), he had traveled to India by sailing around Africa. Later on, Magellan came up with an idea to travel around Americans. Magellan’s idea was to sail westwards from Seville in Spain, through South America to get to Maluco or so

The age of Exploration was when every part of the world was still being discovered. Many famous explorers lived during that time such as Christopher Columbus or Sir Francis Drake. During that time, Europe was desperate to get spices from Asia but accidentally found places of the Earth that never knew

Arising out of the “Dark Ages” was the very weak Europe. After taking death tolls from the black death which was devastating to the European population, and also poverty spread around the entirety of Europe, the population felt stuck. In the early 1400s, the Europeans began to set out and explore the world by settling colonies in the Americas, along the coast of Africa, and parts of India and Southeast Asia. This is referred or known as the Age of Exploration. The Age of Exploration was caused by advances in technology and it was powered by the motivation for glory, religion, economic factors, and much more. The push factors and the causes of European exploration lead to a numerous amount of accomplishments ranging from new colonies/territories to bringing in wealth. If the Europeans had not had some of the push factors the Age like the fall of Constantinople, Columbus discovering the “New World” and economic reasons European Exploration would have never begun, or it would’ve taken many more years.

Europeans set on voyages in the 1400s and 1500s discovering new land and routes and they were very frequent that it was named the Age of exploration.