Ap Euro Dbq Research Paper

In the later fifthteenth century, European exploration and discovery driven by a want to discover a sea route in the East resulted in a series of Portuguese voyages. Geographical findings by Europe brought several new assets such as land, wealth, precious metals, and new products like coffee and tobacco. Inopportunely, in an attempt to quickly use these resources to their advantage, conflict in Europe resulted in a domain which was split into commercial empires. In area such as France and England arose the development of machinery of the strong central government along with aggressive mercantilist policies. Within this paper, I will discuss challenges and responses which can be found from this growth of Europe. My examples include Portuguese voyages which resulted in …show more content…
Henry of Portugal wished to overcome Islam and spread the religion of Christianity there; meanwhile, the challenge of advancement of artillery was generally a tactic used in order for overtaking, such as Ivan IV in Russia. In this advancement of weaponry also laid an element of fear. While some used it to gain power and take over with it, others such as the steppe nomads of Russia refused to leave the power that had allowed them to reign previously, and were overtaken due to them not taking advantage of the advancement.
In order to make his voyages, Henry not only had a desire and reason to make these voyages happen, but also needed to gather the best theoretical knowledge and combine this information with his seamen’s and shipbuilder’s abilities in order to develop the navigability and seaworthiness of his ships. In order to advance the guns there was an urge for understanding and further developing artillery. This growth was also driven be the want to overtake other territories and gain power in addition to wanting to defend their