Age Of Exploration

The age of exploration saw to the beginning of the New World with the discovery of the Americas and Africa; and the interexchange of goods, culture and diseases between the people of the new lands and the Europeans. Europeans, mainly the Spanish, British, Portuguese and later on the French, were driven by similar desires to discover these lands; the riches and spices of the East and the desire for more land. The heavy travel toll exacted by the Muslim middlemen on Europeans for travelling to the East by land and the expense of importing foreign spices and riches from Asia motivated the Europeans to find and establish an alternate supply route to the East, which consequently led to the accidental discovery of new lands with new people; and the

But, they also spread knowledge, material, religion and helped in the formation of the mixed people of Mexico. The British people were expanders and they took the land of the Natives and further depopulated the Native population with diseases, strategized extermination, and drove away the Natives from their own homes and civilization. But, consequently they also started the birth of another nation and formed peace-albeit uneasy- with the Natives. Although, the consequences of the occupation of this new land was development and advancement, it is also true that the development was built upon the destruction of a complex society and culture, similar to the obstruction of civilization and culture in other colonized places such as India, China, Africa by the Europeans also during the exploration period. The other colonized places were also filled with people who had to zealously work in order to please their captors, their resources were also extracted for the purpose of the mother country, and a diffusion of culture and inter-exchange of materials, knowledge, food, animals, and technology occurred. Colonization- no matter how unfair- is undeniably a major part of our World