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    1) Peopling the Americas a) During the Ice Age, the water froze into massive glaciers and exposed a land bridge that connected Eurasia and North America. i) This land bridge allowed the “immigrant” ancestors of the Native Americans to cross the bridge for 250 centuries. b) As the Ice Age ended, the water melted, which made the sea level rise, and the bridge to collapse. This stopped the “immigration” c) These immigrants spilt into many tribes and developed many diverse religions, cultures, and ways

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    The Ming Empire was once a world-economic power, controlling the majority of the trade in the eastern world. The Ming Empire expanded due to Zheng He’s voyages, according to the book “China also undertook the largest and most impressive maritime expeditions the world had ever seen.” (Strayer, 392). These expeditions were funded by Emperor Yongle and it was not until his death that these expeditions had stopped and soon after Portugal and Spain began expanding. The expeditions commissioned by

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    silver allowed greater participation in the commerce of East Asia. Another big key was that fur trapping and trading changed commerce as well as the natural environment. Europeans wanted commercial connections with Asia. Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama both sought for a route to Asia. Motivation above all was the desire for the spices in Asia, although other Eastern products were also sought after. European civilizations just recovered from the Black Death. The national monarchies were learning

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    voyages, more than twelve million Africans were transported from Africa between the Americas, making this one of the biggest forced movement of humans in history. After establishing slave trade, Prince Hnery sent a Venetian navigator by the name of Alvise da Cadamosto on two travels. When the first travel, Cadamosto arrived at the Gambia River. One year later on his second travel, he went from the recently explored Gambia River to the Geba River. When he tried to trade with the Africans settled there, he

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    [Cook’s ship]” which is true because finding shipwrecks does not happen easily (“Researchers Say They’re Closing In on Captain Cook’s Ship”, 2016). In another article called “Vasco da Gama’s Lost Ship Esmeralda Opens New Window on Age of Discovery”, researchers believe that they have discovered Esmeralda, the ship that Vasco da Gama used during Europe’s Age of Discovery. There are also 2,800 artifacts retrieved from the excavation and one of those artifacts is the Indio silver coin which was used to trade

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    The time of Exploration was a day and age that amalgamated two words. European adventurers could find the Incipient World for various reasons. Their activities caused incredible changes for the two macrocosms. European disclosures, triumph, and settlement all through the world from 1400 to 1700 C.E. elucidate why the time is kenned as the Age of Exploration. A considerable lot of the people who culminated these deeds of experience and investigation, including Columbus, Magellan, and Cortes, have

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    Module: Empires in the Americas a) One theme from the module Empires in the Americas was warfare. a. One instance where this theme was seen was the expansion warfare of the Aztecs. i. The key players in this instance were the Aztec empire/emperors and local rival states. The Aztec’s generally were the attackers and the rival states were the recipients. ii. The Aztec empire was motivated to attack rival states in order to expand its empire, gain power, resources, labor, and sacrifices. This also

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    to interpretation of the reader so, in the spirit of choices here are some positive and negative effects of European exploration. In 1488, Bartholomeu Dias led the Portuguese exploration efforts by reaching the Cape of Good Hope. Then in 1498, Vasco da Gama was able to sail all of the way to India via travel around the Cape of Good Hope and into the Indian Ocean. Due to these voyages Europeans were able to obtain spices and other goods from this region. By opening up trading routes from Europe to

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    conflicts of the recent centuries bent on with the union of Castile and Aragon and after , in 1492, the beating of Granada. Two journeys in the 1490s lay the base of the future empires. Columbus, boat west for Spain, stumbles upon America in 1492. Vasco da gama, adventuring south and east for Portugal, reaches India in 1498. The growth

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    Mary Jane Walker is a writer of historically well-informed travel memoirs that come with an autobiographical flavour. She has been described as a younger, female Bill Bryson, though with her own unique voice. Mary Jane first experienced world travel in an unusual way, as part of the crew on a Chinese junk named La Dame de Canton, the first to be built in the old way in decades. La Dame sailed from Canton, now Guangzhou, to Paris in the early 1980s. Just as in the old days of exploration by sail

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