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Portugese and Spanish Exploration - Coggle Diagram
Portugese and Spanish Exploration
meditteranean
base for trade
popular for goods during the dark ages
italian merchants
China
interested in domestic trade
didn't trade anymore with europe
birth of atlantic system
trade went outside meditteranean
ottomoans controlled the silk road
want to avoid the silk road
exploration
renaissance mindset
experiment with open ocean europe and spain
state involved in trade of goods
portugal
poor but stable monarchy
prince henry
founded a school
need well educated beurocrats
need to be capable of expanding political base
build better boats to get to atlantic ocean
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acquire humans to start slavery that is taken to the new wordld
trade posts
boats have canons
bombard costal towns
africa not on that level
defensive positions from others
conquered africa and india through trade
mughal empire
textiles and teas
rich ppl wanted it
first destination by portugals
main reason for going over the ocean instead of land
spanish
christopher columbus
landed in the americas
get gold
enrich the government
entrepreneur expedition
plunder and plantation agriculture
able to be better than portugal