In chapter 1 of Discovering Our Past: The American Journey, by Glencoe, the main idea is exploration and its impact on the Americas. Clearly, exploration made a huge impact on the world by discovering new places, finding new routes, and riches. Portugal and Spain unleashed a new era of exploration by searching for sea routes to Asia by ship, Portugal mainly started the “Age of Exploration” because a sailor named Bartholomeu Dias reached the southern tip of Africa which was new land to them and a little while after, Vasco da Gama found the “long awaited” Sea route to Asia which inspired other people to sail as well. Other people had different goals while exploring the sea, like Ferdinand Magellan who was the leader of the first crew to sail around the world.
The Age of Exploration was a time of trade and the New World. Although there was trouble the exploration had an impact on the Native Americans, Africans, and the European expansion. New technology and weapons, the Middle Passage and The Columbian Exchange were three major developments that took place. The Age Exploration positively impacted the lives of the people in the colonies. New technology and weapons were all things that made the exploration possible.
On October 12, 1492, an Italian merchant by the name of Christopher Columbus landed on an island in the New World. With him he brought three ships and a small crew of Spaniards. After exploring other islands, Columbus came one that he called Hispaniola; here, they found seemingly primitive and naϊve natives that they immediately began to take advantage of. However, little did they know that this first meeting would bring exploration of South and Central America that would wreak havok among the Natives. Throughout the period of European Expansion, Natives were ripped from their home and forced to work day in and day out.
Europeans were one of the lucky people who benefited from the Age of Exploration. They found new trade routes and made more money off slaves. The Age of Exploration was a good time period for the Europeans. The Asians also benefited from the Age of Exploration. The AsiansAsains also started to make more money from trade and slaves.
The age of exploration was a time where ideas, and technology help exploration. One of the technology that were made was the mariner 's astrolabe. “Mariner 's astrolabe was used to determine the latitude of a ship at sea” (Doc 2). The other form of technology was caravels. Caravels were a sturdy ship that helped the explorers explore the world.
The Europeans had motives for exploration, one was that they wanted to spread Christianity. Second, was for wealth, they wanted to find new trade routes and also find gold. Third was glory. They wanted to have a better chance of domination or control in Europe. One reason why The Age of Exploration was harmful
New technological developments in ships helped Europe expand its territory to other continents. A letter to Christopher Columbus from the rulers of Spain revealed that he had sailed the seas to discover and conquer new land for Spain. If he succeeded in this task and spread Christianity, not only would he be rewarded, but the rest of Spain would be too (Document 1). This letter is most likely true due to the fact that it was written by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, who were funding Christopher’s exploration. The main goal of the Age of Exploration was to get more money and territory and to spread Christianity.
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.
Technology may not seem like it made a huge impact on Western Expansion, but it in fact did. Without the creation and development of railroads, canals and bridges, expansion would have progressed a lot slower and not nearly as efficiently. Railroads allowed farmers to trade crops into the valley and passed the Appalachian’s which were previously off limits due to distance and terrain. Canals are water pathways connecting two bodies of water through a large piece of land. They allowed trade ships to have a shortcut for easier travel on trade voyages.
In 1540 to 1700, the Scientific Revolution occured, events and tools created during this time period would change life forever. First, the astrolabe and the compass were both technological advances created to help navigate and explore the world. Also, at this time Asian spices were huge, but Italy and Egypt controlled the trade routes to Asia. Then, explorers started to sail the world, finding new routes and lands. Lastly, Christopher Columbus tried to sail to Asia in late 1492, but messed up on his way there and discovered the New World.
In 1492, exploration of what is now North America began. Colonization began, and it was a tough road. The colonists in the new western world were run by an oppressive government. The British government was being unfair, and the colonists wanted to get out of that relationship. This lit the path for the United States.
Also european with asian countries, and european traders were involved in the spice trade. Europeans also wanted to spread their religion when they traveled to new countries. In order to travel in the seas they made many advances to ships and navigation. The ships were able to ride against the wind and the compass and astrolabe was created for better navigation.
This is one of the many reasons that the Age of Exploration
The European expansion into the Western Hemisphere in the 15th and 16th centuries was a great advance for human civilization. Three reasons was an advancement of the human race is that it laid the groundwork for changed politics, new economy and created views on other cultures. This is important because the expansion of the Europeans into the Western hemisphere was one of a kind at the time. The expansion brought new people, culture and ideas and that and this laid the groundwork for a new government.
Technology can be defined as “the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment”. (n.d.) Therefore, when we speak of technological evolution we can say that it is an “innovation and technology related hypothesis that describes the fundamental change of society through technical development”. Different theorists have their own perspective on the evolution of technology but, although each of their views differs from another, they shared certain common features, mechanism, and incidence in technology. Some theorists have developed distinct approaches to understanding the nature of the technological process and the relationship between technological development and the social world.
