Discovery

The exploration and colonization boom of the 16th-17th centuries permanently connected Europe and the Americas, a connection that eventually formed the modern “West.” This new global connection not only created positive effects, but it also created a few negative ones as well. The European and American perspectives vastly changed because of this new connection that was created. Before the connection came to be, Europeans believed there were multiple continents, unaware of how big the world truly…

European explorers, who took lengthy and harsh voyages around the world. Some examples of these people are: Vasco de Gama, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, John Cabot, and Bartolomeo Diaz. Each are known for one or more major discoveries that impact heavily today’s time. For example, Christopher Columbus “discovered” the New World,…

supplied by the Dutch was confiscated because the English were upset Hudson was exploring for another country. However, Hudson found that private inventors, the Muscovy Company, and the Britsh East India Company would supply him with a ship. Aboard Discovery, the Henry Hudson's final ship in 1910, Henry Hudson went around the southern tip of Greenland and entered a strait to where Hudson thought it was the Pacific Ocean, but actually he soon realized to be a giant bay. Sailing south, the…

unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination” a quote by Christopher Columbus explains how he felt after his technology failed him by leading him in the Americas and not Asia according to his plan. Christopher Columbus took part in the "Age of Discovery", which was a time during the 15th and 16th century when European leaders, starting with Portugal, sponsored the expeditions to undiscovered land in hopes of expanding their wealth and land. Christopher Columbus believed he could reach…

America would not be the same if Christopher Columbus had not sail to find Asia. Christopher Columbus sail in the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria the ships had been sponsor by the Spanish crown in charge of king Ferdinand and queen Isabella . The sponsorship did not come easy for Columbus, trying to obtain sponsorship was not easy but when he propose to the Spanish crown a new route to Asia, the Spanish agree. But the calculations Columbus made would mark a new unravel place by anyone in…

Executive Summary The premise of this analytical assessment was to evaluate how Pfizer uses analytics as it relates to decision making. The assessment focuses on the organization as a whole, with interviews from two colleagues in two different business units: Development Operations (GIP) and the Business Analytics & Insight (GEP). Overall, it is evident that Pfizer, as a consequence of being a heavily regulated pharmaceutical industry, must use scientific data to ensure that the products we make…

On October 12, 1492 , Christopher Columbus landed on an island which is now considered part of the Caribbean. He was met with a strange group of people he assumed were from eastern India, thus he called them Indians. However, he would come to learn very quickly that this land was not India, but a whole new world yet discovered by his people. Columbus would go on to introduce European technology, plants, animals, and even diseases with the new world. He would also take not only the new world…

Early Modern Europe is a period modern historians date from around 1450 to the beginning of the industrial revolution in late 18th century Britain. It is considered a transition period from the Medieval world to the modern world, and thus has elements of both in most aspects of life at this time. The Legal system was not an exception as during the 17th century, the legal system across Europe was changing to reflect the centralizing power of the crown or lack thereof. The new legal systems tried…

Shackleton Case Study: Was He a Successful Leader? Summary In late 1914, the ship Endurance, left the port of South Georgia Island for their final stretch to their South Pole destination. Sir Ernest Shackleton, their illustrious leader, had been at sea before and had even attempted this perilous journey prior to this sailing. Shackleton was starting this journey with renewed vigor as he could sense this would be one of his last chances to accomplish his life-long goal of traversing the southern…

In this essay, I will be summarizing James Fujitani's argument regarding the rejection of the Ming with the Portuguese effort to establish diplomatic relations in 1519. Back in 1517, the Portuguese fleet arrived off the coast of Guangzhou. This was a great moment of symbolic importance to the Portuguese, with making the first official contact between the East Asia and Europe of the early modern period. However, just a few years later, in 1521, these relations broke down by many false rumor…