Causes Of The Age Of Exploration

The Age of Exploration was a time of discovery when glory was great, gold and land was procured by the lots, and God was accepted as the sole higher power in a variety of regions. Although these seem to be a magnificent time, not all benefited from this period. A multitude of explorers had to go to great lengths to achieve these goals, including terrorizing people, which influenced others to do the same. Through the immorality of the motivations, actions, and events that occurred during the Age of Exploration, many of the most celebrated European explorers of the world such as Christopher Columbus, Hernando Cortes, and Francisco Pizarro were not heroes, but were in fact, terrorists. Christopher Columbus was revered for his accomplishments …show more content…
He and his men led a war between the two groups, and unrelentingly killed the Natives causing the destruction of yet another culture. Since the Inca had never seen horses or the weapons of the Spaniards before, the conquistadors easily won. Then, they viciously used their powerful horses to trample them, and their guns and swords to slice off the Native’s heads to cause the demise of the Inca. Within just two years, Pizarro had already controlled the majority of the empire. They even abducted the Incan King and imprisoned him. After the Spaniards had taken all the gold and silver they desired from him and he had given them control of his people, they garrotted him. The conquistadors also spread a deadly disease, smallpox, upon the Natives. This was detrimental to the Inca civilization because they had to face the attacks of Pizarro as well as suffer through the smallpox brought to them by the Spanish. The disease proliferated dangerously and the Natives were completely vulnerable to it. The actions of the Spanish conquistadors were atrocious and heartless. They had no right to the land they took from the Incas, yet they used the most violent of manners to seize what was not theirs causing the Inca’s