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The Age of Exploration (The Portuguese Voyage's (Who was Prince Henry…

- - - - Country's such as Portugal and Spain wanted to find new trade routes to Asia because the trade was controlled by the Arabs and Italians (monopoly)
      - The Spice Islands were rich in spices and China was rich in jewels and silk
    - - The Portuguese and Spanish governments funded these voyages so that their countries would become wealthier
    - - The explorers wanted to convert native people to Christianity
      - They wanted to defeat the Muslims (Arabs) who controlled the trade routes
    - - encouraged a questioning spirit so that people wanted to know more about the geography of the world
    - - The leaders of the voyages wanted to gain fame and wealth for themselves
    - - He wrote his travels of Marco Polo about the wealth of China and this encouraged explorers to find new routes to the East (Asia)
  - - - New ships
      - Compasses
      - Latitude
      - Maps
      - Speed
      - Depth
      - Logbook
- - - - Some European countries such as Portugal, Spain and England created great empires
    - - The Mediterranean Sea declined in importance and the Atlantic become the great trading ocean between the empires and the mother countries
      - Italian cities such as Genoa and Venice declined and Atlantic cities such as London, Amsterdam and Seville
    - - Tea, potatoes, sugar and turkeys are examples of the new foods brought from America
      - Tobacco was as introduced
    - - Development of new maps and all the main parts of the world were explored. The old ideas people had about the world were shown to be wrong
    - - The Treaty of Tordesillas was agreed to prevent conflict between Spain and Portugal
      - England raided Spanish ships transporting gold from the New Word and this lead to war between the two (launching the Spanish Armada against England)
      - England fought France in the Seven Years' War for control of North America
      - Conflicts over scramble for colonies in Africain the 19th century contributed to the cause of World War 1
  - - - The Aztec empire in Mexico and the Inca empire in Peru collapsed
      - Natives were used as slaves and many died from
    - - Shortage of native workers to work on European plantations in the Americas land to slaves being brought from Africa
    - - Spain and Portugal spread the Catholic religion and Britain and Holland spread Protestant religions I the areas they conquered
    - - European culture, language and architecture spread to the colonies while native culture declined
      - European culture was spread by millions of migrants (planters, settlers) who came from Europe to live in the new colonies