offered expansion as well as new trade and tools. This hurried interest in exploration was due in part to new tools and ships like the compass and the astrolabe for navigation and triangular sails and sternpost rudders for long distance sailing. This advance in navigation and increase in European colonists in the New World is what led to the heavily populated North and South America today. Portugal led this surge of exploration with it’s sea based economy and durable‚ lightweight ships like the caravel
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The two nations leading worldwide exploration are Spain and Portugal. There were many reasons that made Spain and Portugal the forerunners of worldwide exploration. Spain and Portugal‚ both located off the Iberian Peninsula‚ had a geographical advantage over other nations. This Peninsula allowed easy access into the Atlantic‚ which made it much easier to launch expeditions to the Americas. Spain and Portugal both sought out economic growth which led them to seek out new trade routes‚ leading to resources
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In the early 15th century the Age of Exploration began‚ which changed world history. European powers were sparked by ambition to gain wealth‚ power through trade and spreading religion among several nations. Among all these nations‚ Spain was the one with the most ambition‚ who sought an alternate route towards Asia for direct access to valuable spices and other goods. Spain had their reasoning as to why they had to seek an alternate route‚ due to having conflict with the Islam. This conflict caused
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Spain and Portugal led the European Age of Discovery‚ an era lasting from roughly 1450-1750‚ in technological advances‚ exploration‚ and colonization. Both countries had been incorporated into the Islamic world during much of the Middle Ages and emerged as newly reformulated kingdoms in the period leading into the Age of Discovery. Each sought to push forth from their geographic boundaries and‚ in so doing‚ enrich their kingdoms through exploration and trade. Portugal emerged as a nation in 1128
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done‚ Emanuel dreamed of uniting Portugal and Spain under his rule and successively married two daughters of King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella I. Under pressure from his Spanish relations‚ he followed their example by expelling Jews and Muslims from his domains in 1497‚ thus depriving Portugal of much of its middle class. His son‚ John III‚ promoted the settlement of Brazil and (again influenced by the example of Spain) introduced (1536) the Inquisition into Portugal to enforce religious uniformity
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The Age of Exploration was a time from the 15th to the 17th century when Europeans began to explore their world to find new trade routes with the East‚ and spread Christianity. Two of the rival superpowers during this time were Spain and Portugal. They competed to find new trade routes and resources. Ferdinand Magellan was born in 1480 in Portugal‚ and was raised in a noble family. He served King Manuel I by establishing Portugal’s influence in India‚ but they had a falling out so he went to
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REWRITE The three colonial empires of Portugal‚ Spain‚ and England were the most dominate in the fight for land in the Americas. While the motivations for these three colonial empires were similar and all of the Native Americans and/or Africans saw the Spanish Portuguese and English as one brutally similar people‚ economic differences between the three of them would ensure that their colonies would develop in dramatically unique ways. Portugal was one of the‚ if not the only‚ technological
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Culture of Portugal The country of Portugal has many rich cultural facets in food‚ music and sports. Situated on the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula that it shares with Spain‚ Portugal’s culture was shaped by the influences from the Latin‚ Visigoth and Muslim cultures. Many men in Portugal go into the Atlantic to catch fish while the women are homebound doing chores like house work or cleaning the fish. The men are the bread winners while the women are the housewives who take care of the home
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Hist-H210 Essay 1 Prompt #2 England in the early 1800’s was very segregated place. Social classes were distinguished by many factors including wealth‚ land ownership‚ gender and race. The wealthy white land owning males were at the top of the chain while blacks‚ women‚ and land workers were at the bottom. The aristocracy was considered the top of the social chain. There were many things happening at this time in British history that affected the public and the public’s view of the aristocracy
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Portugal and Uganda Portuguese Republic and Republic of Uganda are two extremely different countries when it comes to social and economic development. Portugal‚ located in Europe on the Iberian Peninsula‚ while Uganda is located in Africa and is a landlocked country. Portugal is considered a developed country with high living standards and advanced economic. According to the United Nations on Economics and Social Council‚ Uganda is slowly trying to develop‚ but is ranked amongst the least developed
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