Age+Of+Exploration

=AGE OF EXPLORATION =



During this century a lot of people belived the world was flat. Some maps that were found showed that navegators thougt the sea was full of vast creatures and that Europe was in the middle. sailors traveled by looking at the stars, and if there were storms they would get lost, because they would have nothing to guide them. Prince Henry founded a navegation school in Portugal and they developed new ships like the caravel. those were ships used to sail in rough water because they were easier to handle.

The motives for exploration on those times were,
 * Curiosity
 * Wealth
 * Fame
 * National pride
 * Religion
 * Foreign goods
 * Faster and cheaper trade routes

he was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. people in Europe were used to have spices and silks imported from the Far East through Constantinople, but Turks conquered it. Because it was the major trade center between Asia and Europe, trade to western Europe was cut off. columbus became vary interested in sailing and map making. at age 14 he went to the sea and spent his teenage years sailing the areas that where known to exist at that time. he decided that by sailing west he would find a shorter rout to the Far East. he calculated that the trip from europe to the Indies was about 2400 miles. king ferdinand and queen isabella of spain agreed to support the journey. three ships (The nina, The pinta and The santa maria) set sail from palos, spain on august 3, 1492. the ships traveled farther from land than eny other ship had traveled before and they couldnt see signs of land. in october the crew was going to force colombus to go back to spain, when they saw pieces of wood and other signs of land. on october 12th they landed on san salvador an island on the bahamas.
 * Christopher Columbus**

Conquistadors where the Spaniards that helped seize its goods and territory in the new world, conquistadors mean those who conquer. Like they wanted gold, lands and power they decided to plumder the Incas, the Aztecas and many other South American civilizations. The people who lived in America had light clothes because it was really hot, while the conquistadors wore the finest armors in the world. The conquistadors had also the best weapons like steel-tipped lances and sharp swords while the americans used arrows, hatches and spears made from wood. The American civilizations fought very hard to save their lands but they lost and all of their gold, lands and natural goods. **​Clashing Of Two Worlds** Some Europeans feard Native Americans and Some Europeans traded with Native Americans.
 * The Conquistadors**

He is also called "Father of Canada" because during his exploration ha claimed most of the land to France. He traveled the St. Lawrence river and set up some series of trading posts along the way and in 1608 he founded Quebec. During that exploration he met indian civilizations like the Algonquin and the Hurons. Those canadians where in a constant war with a southern tribe called the Iriquois, but their alliance with the Algonquin and the Huron Indians made the Irquois really mad causing them to join forces with the English to fight agains France.
 * Samuel De Champlain**

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