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Age Of Exploration Research Paper

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The age of exploration was a period of time that European ships traveled around the world to find new trading routes and find gold. The world at that time was separated into two worlds the “Old World” (the Americas) and the “New World”(Eurasia). The Age of Exploration impacted the world in many ways. First, socially the Europeans new contact with the new world resulted in a cultural and religious change among the people. The need to spread Christianity plays a big part of this cultural change. Europeans viewed the Natives and their culture as inferior people, said chris. So they pushed the native culture aside as a secondary role and started to spread Christianity as the dominant role in everyone's daily lives. Chris also said “this all lead …show more content…

As more theories about the Age of Exploration come the most believed one is that the Europeans were just lucky and it all had to do with the geography. Angelo stated “They wanted the new land so that they can grow their land and it would be the same as Eurasia” but that is not true because civilizations were able to flourish in Eurasia because everything was the same but you can't do that in the americas because the geography was different so information spreading didn't happen so europeans didn't have to be smarter they were just lucky. Geography helped them. Lastly, the Age of Exploration impacted the world economically and politically because the Europeans went to look for gold and new trade routes that were faster and saved them …show more content…

“Disease was one of the biggest killers out there during that time” said Dan ; Because none of the natives were immune to these diseases because they don't have domesticated animals that lead to these diseases. After the death of many Natives by gun, sword, or disease the Europeans took over the land and started to build up a new government, started colonizations, and began to grow an empire. They brought in slaves from Africa, used the natives as slaves and built up using their skills from Eurasia as well as forcing the natives to teach then new ways to do things. Eurasia became very rich because they received a lot of gold and different trading items from the americas it became one of the biggest trading places for the world. While going out on a new adventure and trying to find gold or a new trade route is good I don't think the Europeans or Spaniards should have been able to do what they did. They took over these natives land that they built up from

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