Discovery Communications

The Age of Discovery and Exploration started when the Europeans wanted to expand to the rest of the world. They did not know what or who they were going to find, but they did not want anything to get in their way. When the Europeans came to the Americas, they found native people living there. The natives and the Europeans differed in many ways. They had different languages, cultures, and even looked different. Christopher Columbus and Thomas Harriot were some of the explorers that came to the…

Is the world a better place because of the exploration of the New World? That is a question asked by many experts and people. The answer is yes. The world is a better place because of the exploration of John Cabot, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Amerigo Vespucci, Leif Erickson , Henry Hudson, Jacques Cartier, Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, Robert de la Salle, Christopher Columbus Francisco Coronado and more. Without the exploration of these great explorers the…

The age of exploration was a time full of learning and profitable trade. During the Renaissance, learning about math, science, and english become more important. People had a drive to learn and be able to read. The Renaissance effected the Age of Exploration by advancing technologies, bringing wealth to monarchs, and having religious freedom. Navigation and exploration was not an easy task. Having technologies that could guide oneself were important. The ships also had to be sturdy and able to…

of Discovery The world we know and live in today is the result of the Age of Discovery, and we owe the present day to that age, and we owe the future to that age. Europe’s motivations for exploration and eventual conquest on all those explorations plays a huge role in where we sit today. We must not forget either, how the interactions we had with Native Americans and the interactions with different cultures impacted our modern outcome. From these motives and interactions, America is presented as…

The general theme from the lecture and readings of the Emerging Modern World and Age of Discovery focuses on the big picture behind 15th century history and what we all know as the Age of Discovery. Not only was this time period filled with exploration, more significantly, this was a time of expansion and conquest. When we use the word “discovery” to describe this time period, we can often overlook what really happened behind the scenes, which was essentially the extermination of millions of…

Christopher Columbus in 1492 sailed the ocean blue, sparking the age of exploration. When he landed in the Caribbean, Columbus gave hope and dreams to many people as well as kings. Dreams and ideas were not the only thing generated from this period of time. Technology, currency, trade, expansion, and the spread of ideas were a result of this exploration of the new world. The world was altered in many ways some better then others, but like the historical context stated "Many civilizations in…

The Age of Exploration contributed to many negative factors from the 15th to 17th century. The Aztecs, Inca and Maya faced many conflicts from the actions of Hernando Còrtes. The trade of slavery grew rapidly and slaves were treated poorly. Another negative result is that the Native Americans suffered abusively under the control of Christopher Columbus and other explorers. As a result, the age of exploration lead to many downfalls in history that cannot be innovated. The Aztecs, Inca and Maya…

Giovanni da Verrazzano Italian sailor, Giovanni da Verrazzano, was the most interesting explorer ever! Everything about him is interesting. From where he was born, to how he set sail. I hope you find him as outstanding as I did. Verrazzano was born around 1485 in Tuscany, Italy. In 1506 he moved to France. Around the same time Spain and Portugal were making themselves famous, and finding new lands. So King Francis I sent math loving, Verrazzano to explore. He wanted him to find a route to…

Gwyneth Murphy Economic Motivation Religion took a backseat to economy as a primary motivation for European exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries. For a long time Europe focused their energy inward, and the contact with other civilizations was limited, however this all changed when Europe embarked on a series of expeditions. The desire for wealth, and the expansion of growth in spice trade controlled the international exchange trade, and the Portuguese dominated this market. With this…

In Alfred Crosby’s Ecological Imperialism the Biological Expansion of Europe, 900 – 1900, he talks about Europe’s expansion over the last centuries, which has come to change life almost everywhere in the world today. Crosby supports his argument in several different ways, which were all through historical roots about the world. He started with Pangaea, which refers to how the earth exists 200 million years ago when the entire continents were one landmass and when dinosaurs were roaming about.…