Age+of+Exploration

AGE OF EXPLORATION 1400's-1500's During de 1400's and the 1500's many believed that the earth was flat. There were people who believed that the earth was round, but since no one had sailed around the world, there was no proof for eaither case. Sailors navigated by studing the location of stars. During storms, clowds bolk the stars, so sailors had nothing to guide them. Prince Henry, from Portugal, founded a navigation school in Sagres, Portugal, in 1416. In that school they made the perfect desing to navigate. One of the desings was a Caravel, that was used to sail rough waters and was earier to handle. The motives for exploration were curiosity, wealth, fame, national pride, religion, foreign goods,and faster, cheaper trade routes.

One of the persons who participated in the Age of Exploration was Christopher Columbus. He was borned on Genoa, Italy, in 1451. When he was a boy, he dreamed to have adventures at sea, as he grew older he got more interested in sailing and in mapmaking. Eventualy he became a sea capitan and was employed by Portugal. Columbus decided that by sailing west he could find a shorter trade route to the far East. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella from Spain, agreed to pay for his journey. He left Spain in August 3, 1942. After weeks he crew became angry and was about to launch him of board. That day luckyly for him they saw sings of land. Columbus was luckyly saved. So he named the island were he landed San Salvador, because it saved him of death. That day was October 12. Columbus died in 1506.

Spaniards who helped seize goods and territory in the New World, were called Conquistadors. The desier for gold and land let this men to plunder both the Inca, and the Aztec civilizations in South America. In that time South America was really hot so the people dressed with light cloathing, and when the Conquistadors got there tehy were wearing heavily protected armor that the world knew. The Conquistadors also had better weapons than the Indians, so they won the war.





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