Essay On European Exploration

INTRODUCTION In 1450 to 1750 Western Europe started their quest for oversea exploration and economic expansion. Exploration changed the society, with economic growth, first by discovering a new way to reach the trading center in India and then by conquering and colonizing the new world. There were many goals for early Spanish exploration from 1492-1548 and early English exploration from 1584-1648. Many goals of the early explorations of both the English and the Spaniards included economic prosperity, increased trade, new land for settlement, and religion conversion.

RELIGIOUS CONVERSION During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries motives for exploration were often said: the quest for gold, God, and glory. Spain wanted to spread the Catholic Church, and Europe was interested in the spread of Christianity. Exploration was fueled by European imagination. “America” was an idea, an idea that meant a new life. “The idea had two parts: one paradisiacal and utopian; the
There were different cultures, languages, and religions; people had to adapt their ways of living. “When two great land masses were rejoined by European exploration, the resulting exchange of people, crops, animals, ideas, and diseases-called the “Columbian exchange,” changed both worlds forever.
CONCLUSION
During the age of exploration, both Spain and the English established a new way of life. The quest for economic prosperity, increased trade, new land for settlement, and religion conversion became the way of life that some succeeded as others did not. Overall, the exploration of both countries brought forth a new meaning in the world and the empires that we knew faded away, but the cultural legacy of them