One factor is new inventions. Compasses and other inventions were designed to make travelling safer by boat. Even boats became more stable, reliable, and safe. Therefore, sailors became more comfortable with exploring further out in the ocean, rather than skimming the coast lines. This is one reason as to why the Age of Exploration began.
Also, people in Europe became very interested about India’s and China’s wealth. Stories about becoming rich and gaining power made Europeans curious. Therefore, many people set sail for India in hopes of becoming wealthy themselves. For example, Christopher Columbus planned to go to India and accidentally came across America instead.
Before the Age of Exploration, many people believed that the Earth was flat
Though, Columbus’s voyage was unsuccessful, it created a fluctuation of quest throughout the other European superpowers to find a trade route to India. Similar to Spain, France had an Italian merchant Giovanni Verrazano.In addition, England hired an Italian merchant John Cabot. After the Italian merchant voyage to find India's route route fail the motivation for wealth gradually grows,though Spain differs due to motivate of glory and God. Therefore, it is elucidated that finding a trade route to India through hiring Italian merchants were similar factors in the motivations between the major European superpowers there are differences lay in their individual methods for abstracting
Throughout the 15th and 16th centuries, European exploration and expansion thrived. Portugal led the way in this movement of exploration with their development of efficiently built ships known as caravels, seafaring devices such as compasses and astrolabes, and cutting-edge naval academies. Various European countries, including Spain, England, France, etc., followed Portugal’s example by utilizing their progressive naval technology. These technological advancements led to the crossing of oceans and eventually the circumnavigation of the world. These Portuguese sailing techniques were implemented by explorers such as Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Hernando Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, and Bernal Castillo allowing them to travel by sea to places such as Africa, East Asia, the Caribbean, and the Americas. These nations and explorers were persuaded to put in the time and effort to complete these complex expeditions by three essential motivations. Financial gain, political dignity, and religious expansion were fundamental motivators for the European Age of Exploration.
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 age of exploration brought about many advances in both technology and culture, especially for Europe. In Europe at the time, there was much dissention within the masses. Also, due to the rapid consumption of church land and the new lack of jobs, the population of poor was quickly growing. These factors were some of the most influential when European countries were deciding where to sail.
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.
In the 1400’s, Europeans were finally able to explore across the Atlantic Ocean b/c if the astrolabe (finds latitude – from ancient Greece) and the compass (invented by Chinese): Also used triangular sails (developed by Arabs), which allowed ships to zigzag into the wind.
The age of exploration was driven by many causes. One of the biggest reasons being the desire to find a new route to Asia. The yearn for riches and spices was high and both could be found in the heart of Asia.
The Age of Exploration was a time when many explorers went out to discover and seek new findings. It took place for many reasons, but it happened mainly because Europeans wanted to find new trade routes to Asia. Since Muslims and Italians were the only ones controlling trade, the rest of the Europeans wanted to find new ways and new places to trade with. Along with this, new advances in technology such as the compass, and in mapmaking took place. Also, many people were up to take the challenge and explore the parts of the world they never knew of.
With the inventions of more efficient ships and the perfection of navigational instruments, the Spanish (as well as England and France) gained a curiosity to explore and find a way to Asia by water and
Due to the Natives getting in their way, they had to conquer them. This then led to the greed of wealth, trade, religion, etc. The Europeans at first had no real intention of traveling as a means of wealth or trade. It was originally to expand their land before their enemies had the chance to do so. Power and competition were the motivations for the Europeans, as they traveled to gain massive amounts of land.
Many of the resources that in the Indian Ocean trade route where very difficult to produce or couldn’t be found in Europe. With the scarcity of these products, many European merchants had to pay in order to get what they wanted. This led to an outflow of cash that affected the economy in a negative way. In order to make back, their losses, many European countries began to colonize parts of the world. This was in direct response to not be able to produce their own resources. Colonization allowed the Europeans to compete with the countries located along the silk road and the Indian Ocean. Europeans were very interested in the Asian spices. Joint-stock companies such as the Dutch East India Company divided the cost among investors. These funded explorations led to the discovery of new territories and opened up new opportunities for trade among other countries.
After the events of the wars, it opened the outlook of the world to the Europeans and opened their minds to explore other places. “Finally, the incentive given to geographical discovery led various travelers, such as the celebrated Italian, Marco Polo, and the scarcely less noted Englishman, Sir John Mandeville, to explore the most remote countries of Asia” (Alchin). This led many explorers like Marco Polo to discover, meet and open relations between Europe and Asia to
The European economic motivation was the main cause of European exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries. New trade, and the search for gold and spices were the three main motives behind Europe’s thirst for exploration and discovery. Trade with Asia and Africa was shrinking, Europe’s gold supply was drained, and spices were growing in demand, forcing Europe to send explorers in search of new resources and trade.
The desire to explore the unknown has been a driving force in human history since the dawn of time. From the earliest documented accounts, ancient civilizations have explored the world around them. Early adventures were motivated by religious beliefs, a desire for conquest, the need for trade, and an unsatisfying hunger for gold. The great Age of Exploration, beginning in the late 1400s, was an important era in the discovery and development of lands yet unknown to the Europeans. During this period, Europe sought new sea routes to Asia in pursuit of economic gain, increased glory, and opportunities to spread Christianity. Although these were motivations for explorers, the impact from the discoveries resulted in significant changes and
Prior to the Age of Discovery, Europeans have enhanced their technology and increased their geographical knowledge. In the past, European navigated through the seas by observing their environment or by using portolan charts to guide them through them the Mediterranean sea. However, because of Prince Henry the Navigator, Europeans were able to travel farther with much more accuracy. Henry designed a nautical map which helped explorers travel away from shore without the possibility of being lost. This gave them the opportunity to discover more land, past their usual limits seen in the portolan charts. Not only was he able to create an efficient map, he also taught others the knowledge