Whether or not early explorers should be celebrated in the modern word is twofold, on one hand, yes these men should be celebrated for discovering our countries and areas in which people live today and setting up trading ports and routes as well as making connections with neighboring countries. On the other hand, should current day citizens be celebrating the slaughter and enslavement of those who once roamed where Americans stand? Should a community allow those murderers and slave owners to be seen as heroes? The latter outweighs the former to the point that no, European explorers, conquistadors, and settlers from the age of exploration should not be glorified and celebrated as if heroes. European nation’s goals while exploring were not always set with the best intentions. Explorers from this time period were sent off with instructions to find new and exciting places and goods to export. These explorers were also told to find …show more content…
Colonization provided the need for their homes to be destroyed and families to be killed off. Those who were seen fit were enslaved and torchered. Exploration of this time period only raised the odds of native populations being conquered. Europeans mostly saw positive consequences. By trading slaves, European countries earned guns. Although, even if a county did not agree with the enslavement process they were forced into it or else they would be abolished. European countries also had to launch more and more exploration and colonization crews at this time in order to not be lost on the map. To gain land and power these countries had to explore, colonize, and enslave. Portugal, an European country, found themselves in need of more power, or they would be conquered by larger kingdoms surrounding them. For the need to stay above water the Portuguese established ports to trade slaves and weapons and anything else they needed. These ports were along african