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Age of Exploration - Coggle Diagram
Age of Exploration
Consequences
Europeans navigation instruments such as ships, maps, astrolabe and compass were improved, creating greater force and usefulness.
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Sailors learned more about geography (longitude, latitude, new places, etc.) and improved navigation
New food, animals, plants were exchanged between the colonies and Europe. This was known as the Columbian Exchange.
Other countries such as Great Britain, France, Portugal, etc, started to explore beyond the mapping seas. Which cause the Portuguese and the Spanish to fight over land until the treaty of Tordesillas peacefully separated the land in 2.
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Indigenous people were wiped out thanks to the Europeans by diseases, overwork and massacre.
Exploration and trade contributed to the growth of capitalism. And this economic system is based on investing money for profit.
A network of trading between Europe, Africa, and the Americas made the Triangular Trade Route.
A final result of exploration was a new economic policy called mercantilism. European rulers believed that building up wealth was the best way to increase a nation’s power
It made economical and political impacts all over the nation which changed their way of seeing things. And of course, it also ended an Era, to start a new one.
This all made a huge impact on Science. They learnt a lot more about the different areas and different places around the globe that it made our knowledge in geography, technology much better.
Causes
Others, hoped to spread Christianity to people throughout the world and to drive Muslims out of other lands
Some scientists or navigators like Henry the navigator wanted to test their theories as they explored.
Some Europeans adventurers wanted to test the limits of human ability and to explore the unknown. Discover far away places and settle in the new land.
Trade with the East was difficult and very expensive. Muslims and Italians controlled the flow of goods. So explorers had to find new trading routes for the spice and silk trades.
The Ottoman Empire took control of the Constantinople in 1453 which caused many blockages in trading for the European nations such as the access to North Africa and the Red Sea.