Discovery Communications

Contributing to existing scholarship does not always mean forging a new or innovative methodology. Sometimes a book can be a worthwhile read and follow the structure of earlier works. It is in this manner that readers will most appreciate Timothy Silver’s A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, colonists, and slaves in South Atlantic forests. The author quickly acknowledges his appreciation for two earlier works in environmental history that inspired this book, Alfred W. Crosby Jr.’s The…

the age of discovery and exploration. One of the very first Spanish conquistadors, Hernando Cortès, arrived in America in search of gold and along the way had enslaved and killed a majority of the Native Americans through warfare and contamination. Another important phase that followed swiftly afterward was called the age of conquest, in which the Spaniards established their dominance over the natives through military forces. One of the last phases was known as the Ordinances of Discovery,…

biopharmaceutical based in California in Palo Alto. The company has employees ranging from 200 to 500. The company is involved in the development, discovery and commercialization of the drugs for treatment of diseases. The company utilizes advances registered in genetics and molecular biology to detect mechanisms of the cardiovascular diseases, as well as targeting the discovery of drugs. In addition, the company is specifically involved in the development of angina pectoris. The CV Therapeutics…

The Age of exploration Table of content Page 1 title Page 2 Table of content Page 3 introduction Page 4 Vasco da Gama Page 6 Is the Age of exploration a golden age? Page 8 Technology of the Age of Exploration. Page 9 Paragram of technology Page 10 credits Imagination you are on a boat going to a cotenant that nobody have never been too before.That really happened.It’s called “The Age of Exploration.”The Age of Exploration was time when europeans were going threw the oceans…

This paper examines Portuguese, Spanish, English, and Dutch explorers and how and why the different groups acted the way they did in the areas they were exploring. Though all parties were European, each have different cultures and backgrounds. This directly affects their interactions in foreign countries. The Portuguese, Spanish, English, and Dutch were all unique in their oversea doings, each group acting and reacting in different ways for different reasons than their neighboring explorers.…

The Colombian Exchange and its Effects. The Columbian exchange was a new sea bridge that allowed a transatlantic trade of people, ideas, and goods. It helped the Spaniards bring over Christianity and exposed the New World to many iron technologies such as firearms and pans. Unfortunately, it also brought over many diseases that the Indians had never been exposed to before. The many diseases killed off the Indian population and caused the majority of the descendants to transform from Asians to…

The Voyages of Zheng He According to the book, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries or 1405 the Imperator in that time named Yongle decided to send an enormous, remarkable , and majesties expeditions that will explorer across new parts of the world and opened a door to a new part of the world by that time known. This expedition was the biggest naval expedition up to that time. This fleet trading ships under the admiral Zheng he who was a eunuch muslin and confident of the imperator…

thirteen years of schooling. If we really want to be the best, we must have a basic education and the conditioning to learn new things easily. Non-medicational drugs are entirely prohibited and any possession of any amount if punishable by scientific discovery center. These will rot the brain and work ethic; they are one of the sole things that completely oppose our mission statement. All religions will be tolerated as long as followers do not enforce views on other people. If people want to…

I am glad to send you a letter. King Ferdinand has wished to reward me with my efforts in his loyal services. I sailed with Columbus in 1493 as a second trip to the new world. I heard of a fountain that gives you youth. I returned home after the trip, wondering if there was such a thing. I quickly forgot about that and built settlement in Hispaniola for further Spanish island colony for Spain. I then heard of gold nearby Puerto Rico, which the king sent me to search for in 1508. I took 50…

How many sailors or those who might perish in this discovery or conquest walked through the streets of Lisbon, Portugal? Almost two hundred sailors walked through the streets of Lisbon, Portugal to ask God to forgive them. Where did Da Gama sail? “His ship rounded the southern tip of Africa, and entered the Indian Ocean.” Who sponsored him to find a route? “King Manuel the 1st of Portugal asked Da Gama to find a sea route to India.” My paper is going to be about some of the routes Vasco…