Fundamental factors that drew European exploration, conquest, and settlement were trade, resources, and expansion. The whole purpose of Christopher Columbus traveling over seas was to find new trade routes to Asia, but ending up accidentally "discovering" the New World. With the news of discovering the New World, people from Europe and Spain have begun to sail and conquer and claim territory nearly killing off the inhabitants of the New World. Conquering these already discovered lands means countries like Spain and England could expand further west of the hemisphere. With claiming new territory, the Europeans found new foods and lands to dig up gold.…
The Europeans sailed the seas because they wanted to find trade routes for goods and land. Explained in document one, Columbus sailed to the Indian Sea and was discovering islands and people. In document four, Henry Hobhouse started to be in search of trade routes east of the Mediterranean. In document five, John Cabot investigated islands and countries. Columbus started in Cadiz and went along the Indian Sea.…
5. What is Zinns basic criticism of historian Samuel Eliot Morison’s book Christopher Columbus? * Zinns basic criticism of the book is that Morison praises Columbus too much, he goes overboard. According to Zinn, Columbus was a bad guy.…
Chapter 1 of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States discusses the lives of natives of the Americas both prior to and after the arrival of European explorers, and includes a statement by the author on writing history. To begin, Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the Americas are covered heavily in the chapter, and I consider these themes regarding him to be the most important: • “The information that Columbus wanted most was: Where is the gold? He had persuaded the king and queen of Spain to finance an expedition to the lands, the wealth he expected would be on the other side of the Atlantic—the Indies and Asia, gold and spices” (Zinn 2) and “In addition for bringing back gold and spices, they promised Columbus 10 percent of the profits, governorship over newfound lands, and the fame that would go with a new title: Admiral of the Ocean Sea” (2). These passages explain Christopher Columbus’s motivation for setting sail for his first trip, which was acquiring rare goods to take back to Spain for wealth and…
He had to plead with monarch after monarch in Western Europe to allow and fund his expedition until Isabella the queen of Spain noticed the worthiness of his expedition and underwrote it. During the journey, Columbus had clashed with the members of the crew who almost threw him aboard. His arrival in America was followed by amassing wealth in the form of gold and dominating the native…
As we know, the Santa Maria crashed into the shores of the new world, leaving Columbus and his crew with one less boat. He decided to leave behind a boat of men with enough supplies to last them for a while, until they could sustain themselves. Although this mission to colonize failed, Columbus took a huge step for Spain that would ignite the flame of exploring the Americas. Many countries such as France and England wanted to expand their borders and imperialize the land and resources. This would soon lead to the further development and colonization of the Americas.…
Reputation gain. Riches. Discovery. Religion. All of these are goals Columbus and de las Casas are both set on the objective to find in the “New World’s”, but with de la Casas comes clear that changing humanity instead was his true prime achievement in all of this.…
Europeans sought to start colonies in the Americas to make their lives better, which meant that they needed wealth, as much of it as possible. According to Howard Zinn, Columbus was seeking spices and gold from Asia (2), two things that would make one very wealthy, but when he instead found the Americas he would seek the only wealth he could find. The first two things Columbus would notice is that the natives were very easily taken advantage of and that they had bits of gold on them along with gold particles in the rivers (3). From this he derived that he could use the natives as slaves to retrieve gold and increase his wealth. Of course Columbus is not the only European to figure this out as almost all of the Europeans (from Spanish to English)…
While conquering the new world, Spanish Conquistadores sought out wealth and other precious commodities. The Spanish explorers wanted gold and riches to take back to Spain in order to make themselves, including the nation of Spain, powerful. The Spaniards were basically reducing the natives to slavery by making them do forced labor without receiving…
Imagine waking up on a ship filled with salty sea dogs being possibly sea sick or just plain starving; this is what the European settlers went through. They went across the ocean just so they could just own a another chunk of monopoly in the New World. They went through tough times for this chunk of monopoly and why for power or to be the one with the most land. They came for many reasons and these reasons will include gold land and materials. From how they settled, to where they went, and their final outcome, Spain, France and England conquered the new world .…
So in 1492, when Spain was frantically searching for a way to gain dominance, power and wealth over their surrounding countries, Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus embarked on a journey…
Europeans were looking for a trade route to the East by sea. Europeans lack gold to pay for imports from Asia. Europeans initially had many disadvantages and fears (ignorant; fearful; lacking technology; Ottoman Empire) Decreasing belief that the world was flat and sea travel may lead to falling off the earth…
Spain and England were both enticed by the promise of wealth in the New World. Columbus ' discovery and exaggeration of the gold he found led to several other Spanish voyages across the Atlantic Sea. The idea of "God, Gold, and Glory" inspired the conquistadores, including Pizarro and Cortés. For example, Pizarro conquered the Inca…
Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan was one of the top 20 European explorers. Magellan went on pretty cool adventures. He also saw some crazy animals and fish. The things that Ferdinand discovered are very important. I have learned some weird stuff about Magellan and his family, adventures, and the crazy animals that he saw.…
The Spanish exploration of America brought many new foods, types of plants, and forms of wealth to the European world. The wealth brought to Spain from the Americas came at a cost that was paid for by the enslavement and the sufferings of Native Americans and eventually the Africans. The Spanish colonization from 1492 to 1700 was motivated by religious conversion of all peoples in America and the desire for wealth and profit that had a significant impact on the lives of Native Americans and Africans. First, colonization by the Spanish was motivated by religious conversion. Columbus first “discovered” America in 1492.…