were already living in the Americas. Today, I would be providing information about North and South America. You will be able to differentiate similarities and differences amongst the two. North and South America were named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. They…
The colonization of the Americas changed the world completely. A new world was found in 1492 by Christopher Columbus.. Christopher Columbus was commissioned by Spain’s monarchy to find this new route. Spain eventually conquered and settled most of South America, the Caribbean, and the American Southwest. This was the beginning of what scholars call the new world, many scholars ask themselves is the Spanish colonization of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries a success or not? The New…
Coming Soon To a theatre near you! Leif Eriksson-Rapid winds lead him off his route and took him and his ship all the way to the north american coast. Leif and his crew came in on the labrador Peninsula to, what is now, present day Canada. Soon after, the vikings sailed farther south to end up on the island of Newfoundland, and maybe to present day present day New England. When Eriksson landed, he ended up in a coastal area known as Vinland. Leif stayed, however, the vikings left just…
Spain and Portugal really wanted to find a sea route to Asia for multiple reasons. Traveling to Asia by land takes too long, it’s expensive, and it’s a hassle. It’s also a more efficient way to get spices and other items. When traders come to Europe to sell silk, spices and other items from Asia, the items had been taxed so many times along the way that it becomes ridiculously expensive. Spain and Portugal also wanted a way to travel to Asia so they could convert people to Christianity and to…
celebrate Columbus Day is that Columbus did not discover America any more than a person who finds a hip new restaurant is “discovering” it. The area had been settled for tens of thousands of years and other Europeans — think Leif Erikson and Amerigo Vespucci — had beaten him to it. He ushered in an era that lasted centuries — one of greed and recklessness and above all, one driven by careless disregard for human lives deemed to be below them — it could loosely be called one of the longest and…
Comparative Analysis on Three Italian Renaissance Masterpieces The Renaissance started from the fourteenth century and lasted in 16th century when Michelangelo died. In this era, there where several technical innovations such as the invention of oil painting, the use of Chiaroscuro, and the use of perspectives in paintings. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael are the so called “the three giants” who were very influential and well known for their works. Some of the well known features…
launched an Age of Exploration, where every European power wanted a piece of the New World. Shorty after Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Western Hemisphere, in 1492, many Europeans also started the strenuous expedition. One of which was Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian who constituted an entirely separate journey to this second super continent, came to be named "Americas", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name. The most significant comparison components of…
forced them off course battering their ship forcing it to land in Lisbon, which caused some to believe he was collaborating with Spain’s enemies. When Columbus finally got back to Spain is sparked more and more expeditions and it wasn’t until Amerigo Vespucci that it was finally realized as a new…
the Americas in 1492, even though Leifr Eiriksson and his Norse crew had already explored the North American continent centuries before Columbus. After Columbus’s rediscovery, countries raced to conquer territory and search for gold. Florentine Amerigo Vespucci, another Italian explorer for Spain, explored South America and the Amazon River. It was then he realized he was not in Asia. The continents of North and South America are named after him. Hernando Cortés was a Spanish conquistador who…
As a result of new contacts among Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas, social and economic transformations occurred in the Atlantic world from 1492 to 1750. Many social changes occurred in these regions as a result of new contacts. Economic changes had great effects on West Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the time period, 1492-1750. The social and economic transformations that occurred were created by the initiation of European expeditions by Spain and Portugal. In the early 15th…