DBQ European Exploration From 1400 to 1700 C.E. the Europeans began explorations into the new world and made settlements in the Americas. The explorers included Columbus, Magellan, and Cortez, and they are known in this era also known as the Age of Exploration. One of the European countries to first explore was Spain; however, the Spanish were not, one would say, good house guests. The Spanish saw the natives as inferior and In need of Christianity. The settlers mistreated the natives even though the laws back in Spain declared justice in dealing with the natives.
In the mid-eighteenth century, many European powers wanted to expand their influence to other parts of Europe and to the rest of the world and also to gain new territories. To accomplish this, they had to overcome many issues. They had to make alliances with the natives of the new land, cooperate in trade with other powers, overcome diplomatic negotiation, and lastly make peace agreements. The natives of the new land would play a key role in establishing European powers.
Document 7 mentions that Europe had to compete with it’s neighbors when voyaging across the globe, and even before they started to expand. This could have motivated European countries to explore faster and beat out other countries. As a whole, Europe had a desire for power, which it could gain by exploring (Document 7). When the Spanish came to Mexico and South America, they spread smallpox. This lead to the death of Huanya Capac, the Incan leader, which in turn set of many wars of succession.
Starting in the early 1600’s settlers from England came to “The New World.” England and Spain were competing to claim this new undiscovered land. The English were the first to claim the land by sending the first group of settlers, the Chesapeake settlers. They settled in present day Virginia and Maryland. The Chesapeake settlers came for commercial and profit.
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, the third shortest inaugural address in US history, was delivered on March 4, 1865 in front of the US Capitol. In just over a month, the Civil War would be over. Already the Thirteenth Amendment has abolished slavery, and only Generals Lee and Johnston with a small force stand against a Union army 280,000 strong. Despite an inevitably victorious North, President Lincoln’s speech is somber and speaks only of the wounds rendered in this great nation, suggesting that slavery had offended God and that the war acted as a form of divine retribution. Through rhetoric, Lincoln heeds the American people to reunite and move past their disagreements.
The population grew throughout Western Europe because of a trade route called the Columbian Exchange, this exchange of goods allowed for the nutrition to go up throughout the villages of Western Europe during this time. Sometime after the tragedy of the bubonic plague, there were explorations that were supported by many countries, but the one that is most famous for it is Spain because that was the country that produced Christopher Columbus and sponsored his travels. As the explorations went on, explorer after explorer, there was a New World that was found or founded, this area is known today as the Americas. In the Americas explorers established colonies, like the one John Smith founded, the town of Jamestown. The people who settled in the New World didn’t want to continue to be apart of the European nations, so there was a war
Because of this, Europe was in need of new ways to obtain items. My evidence comes from Document 1. Next, is isolation, Europe’s dark age. They weren’t updated in technology and life was difficult. In the Background it states “Until about 1450, Europe was mostly cut off and isolated from the Silk Roads.
During this time period, European colonies were exploring the world looking for new lands to conquer and colonize. The ideology of the time was mercantilism, which meant the strength of a colony was determined by the wealth of the colony. They would export the riches they obtained in their newly colonized land and export them for profit adding to their wealth. The European colonies also tried searching for faster trade routes, or land located along them in order to increase the profit they received from trades. New lands also offered new materials to trade which could allow them to dominate the trade markets.
After America was discovered it became an opportunity for money and power. An abundance of European nations had ventured to explore and establish this land. These countries fought for control over North America for a very large amount of time. Despite England being one of the last countries to colonize there, they had become the dominant force in the North American Colonies. The British succeeded in taking over the colonies against other nations because of their suppression of the Native Americans, colonization of the land, and the victory of the French and Indian War America was not empty when the Europeans discovered this land.
The Europeans did not look at North America as occupied land; they viewed it more as a gold mine of opportunities. Europeans from all over the place started flooding into North America in search of success and wealth. The Native Americans were quickly overwhelmed by the power of the Europeans,
A. In the second half of the fifteenth century the monarchies of France, England, and Spain began searching for new opportunities to expand and stabilize their countries. A faster trade route to Asia and a share in the African gold trade fueled these countries interests outside their borders and to parts of the world that had yet to be discovered by the Europeans. B. Three reasons why Europeans believed in and desired imperialist growth.
Some other empires that were expanding to the Americas were France and the Netherlands. the reasons the French colonized the Americas were religion, exploration, and fur trade. The Dutch had settled there for some of the same reasons but other ones as well. Things like religion, exploration, farming, fishing and trade. The difficulties they faced consist of wars, defending more land and the risk of inflation.
The Europeans were able to conquer the Americas because even though it was by “accident,” they were still more prepared for what was to come. Jared Diamond calls the European “accidental conquerors.” Diamond calls his theory geographical luck and concludes that the only way the Europeans were able to dominate the Americas was because of the way the ocean patterns happened to flow. The geographical wind patterns caused the ships to sail towards the Incas and the Aztecs and when the Europeans arrived they tried to conquer the Aztecs and Incas, they succeed for a number of reasons. One reason that they were able to conquer the Americas was because of their technological advances.
These include the trading system, the economy and most importantly the Industrialization and the competitive state system. The two major factors that contributed to Europe’s rise were the competitive state system (early
The Europeans showed an example of ethnocentrism by stating the belief that those inferior races should be conquered in order to make them civilized. Exploration led to imperialism since nations wanted to explore territories that were unknown to them. Nations explored territories to lay claim to them, and sometimes for research means. Claiming territories showed national strength and
