In the 16th century, the Portuguese was able to find a route around the Cape of Good Hope that got them involved in the Indian Ocean trade. The trade was dominated by Asian traders who operate from East Africa to India and from Eastern India to Indonesia. The Portuguese replaced these Asian traders to Venetian, Genoese and Catalan traders. Soon in 1507-1515, Portugal conquered carefully calculated cities like Goa, Malacca and Hormuz and set up a base in these cities. The impact the Portuguese bring to the Indian Ocean trade is when they enter the trade for the benefit of wealth and power over Spain and the Muslims, they took control over trading cities with spices through the use of violent force and strategic methods which cause the Portuguese
The Portuguese started paying low prices after they took over the trade. In a contract made by the Portuguese with the king of Cochin they decide to pay very low prices for pepper while also receiving filthy pepper (Doc. 6). Before Portugal entered the trade people would pay normal prices for spices like paper. If the Portuguese did not take over the trade people also wouldn’t be selling filthy pepper because they wouldn’t be mad. The Portuguese controlled the trade by deciding what items came in and out.
The Portuguese made a contract with the King of Cochin to buy a pepper used for spice at a very low price but the Indian pepper growers brought their worst produce to the Portuguese and sold them peppers that were green and full of filth (Doc 6). This document shows how the Portuguese were jealous of Arabia and Persia for having that specific pepper, ultimately having them make a contract with the King which as a result left them with receiving bad peppers. The Portuguese sent a letter to the Ottoman empire to establish free trade with them by listing many reasons on how the Turks would betray them and turn against the Ottomans (Doc 3). This document also shows us how the Portuguese were jealous of the Turks trading with the ottomans but it also shows us how greedy they are because they made it clear that they wanted to establish free trade with the ottomans. The sourcing from document three shows us that a Portuguese court official realized that it would be beneficial to trade with the Ottomans to get more products from other countries but as long as a free trade was established between the
In the 1500’s and 1600’s, Europe dived into an era of exploration of new trade routes. Exploration carried out by explorers like Cortes, Diaz and Da Gama led Europe into new lands. The main motivations of these explorers were to gather spices and gold. Their countries were infatuated with the spices of Asia and with precious metals. Religion was not the main motivation for European exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries; however, the search for wealth was.
The Renaissance and Age of Exploration In 1453 Europe had to take risks to get out of the “Dark Ages” and into the Golden Age (Renaissance). In the “Dark Ages” the majority of people were living in hard and poor times. Trying to get into the Golden Age started the Age of Exploration, which was a series of voyages and expeditions the Europeans made to get into the global trade and wealth of the east coast. In document one of the DBQ it says, “With trade routes to the east in hand of the Ottomans, Europeans needed to find new trade routes.” This was one cause of the Europeans wanting to explore new lands.
The European Age of Exploration had a few causes. One of them being the Ottomans who controlled eastern trade routes and were looking to expand. The Europeans feared the Ottomans so they decided to find, and open new trade routes as said in document 1. The other main reason for exploration is seen in document 3, “...to see the
The most prominent reason that the Europeans traveled was to find resources. In the times that they explored, trade was a valuable income of goods for most countries, but countries wanted more direct ways of obtaining such materials. “The starting point for the European expansion… had a great deal to do with pepper”(Doc 4). Pepper was a very valuable import, and as such when the Turks began to block trade routes for it around 1470, other Europeans sailed in order to find the source of the spice. In addition, at the end of Columbus’ letter he summarized with “I will procure… a quantity of spices, of cotton, and of mastic… I promise also rhubarb and other sorts of
The missionaries in India allowed for Christianity to spread and flourish in the world. Without the search, colonization, and conversion of India, the world we know today would be delayed if not nonexistent. European exploration began during the Middle Ages. During the late 13th century, Italian explorer Marco Polo went on a 25-year overland journey through Mongolia and Japan in search of a route to the Far East for trading textiles and spices. By the mid-14th century, the Ottoman Empire had conquered most of the area between Europe and the Far East, and Arab traders were charging expensive fees for their spices.
By the end of the 1400s, many European ships left Europe to explore the world. This exploration could have been initiated by various events that occurred previously. Starting with the first event, the Black Death, in the 1300s, which caused the decline of the feudal system and lead to the rise of the Renaissance era, a period of time when people were craving for more knowledge in topics such as philosophy, anatomy, geography, etc. It was throughout this Renaissance period and because of new inventions such as the printing press that could have caused people to want to explore and expand their knowledge about the geography of the earth. But also, it could have been, “[…] the idea of getting richer that originally got the European’s interest
Age of Exploration was a time of amazing adventure with causes that drastically change lives. In many ways, explorers change the state and the government, but what was for good than bad. The age of exploration brought technology, many different motives and effect in colonization. The age of exploration was a time of trouble, motivation drive, and inventions.
Age of Exploration During the Age of Exploration, trade was very important because it caused the triangular trade. The continent Europe (mainly the countries Spain and Portugal) changed the economy of Europe in the Age of Exploration. Spain changed the economy when Christopher Columbus was set to find Asia going west of the Atlantic. Instead of finding Asia, Columbus found a new land, known as the United States of America.
It is the night August has been patiently waiting for, she and Lily are in the middle of the the story of how a 14 year old girl ended up in Tiburon, South Carolina. Lily arrives at August’s house after running away from her father, but not before she could break her caregiver out of jail. Together Rosaleen and Lily meet August and her sisters; May and June. After staying and spending time with August for several weeks, Lily feels comfortable sharing the guilt-filled memories of her mother's accident. Upon hearing the name Deborah Owens, August tells Lily that she was her mother’s nanny when her mother was a young girl.
The Age of Exploration occurred from 1400 to 1700 C.E. It is famously known as the Age of Exploration because it was a time when explorers from Europe travelled by sea to explore west of them, and make many geographical advances. Exploration was motivated by gold, glory, and God. Along with their motivation, the Europeans also wanted to find trading partners, new goods, new trade routes, and simply find new land. With exploration, there were many good effects and many bad ones.
During the 15th and 16th centuries, leaders of a few European nations sent expeditions out in the hope that explorers would find great wealth and vast undiscovered lands. The Portuguese were the earliest participants in this “Age of Discovery.” Starting in about 1420, Portuguese ships sailed the African coast, carrying spices, gold, slaves and other goods from Africa and Asia to Europe.
The Age of Exploration, starting from the 15th century and lasting until the beginning of the 17th century, was a period of time in which the Europeans explored the Americas and Africa while searching for a more efficient trade route with Asia. However, the Europeans did not just discover this lands, but also made use of them and the native population. The causes of the Age of Exploration were “God, Gold and Glory” which effects were the expansion of Christianity, importation of precious resources into Europe and colonization of new lands. The first cause of the Age of Exploration was “God” which resulted in an expansion of Christianity.
