desires led to European Exploration. The sailing advances in technology include the caravel‚ this design of triangular sails helped sailors to sail effectively against the wind. More advancements include the astrolabe‚ which helped sailors to better determine their location at sea‚ the magnetic compass‚ which allowed sailors to more accurately track direction‚ and cartography‚ the science of making maps. Additionally‚ the desire for money‚ more land‚ and spreading Christianity led to European Exploration
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There were many motivating factors for European Imperialism but the primary cause for the age of Imperialism in Africa were economic motivations. By improving the state of the economy‚ England would be able to fix the social and political factors that were causing stress on the country. The expansion into Africa‚ allowed England to support the growing population as well as utilize the vast number of natural resources to support the growth of factories. England was in a time of great social growth
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the empire of the Mongols was breaking up. That was the main reason why Europeans began to explore the world‚ but there are many reasons‚ for example‚ the western merchants were no longer able to be assured of safe conduct alongside the land routes. A different reason why they began to explore the world is the three G’s. God‚ gold and glory‚ God. Because Europeans always wished to grow in Christianity. Glory because European colonists and explorers would want to expand themselves‚ while the other
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New World In their struggle to colonize the New World‚ colonial masters aimed to control North America. Those who came to the nee world as settlers had different reasons for doing so. However‚ their governments focused on controlling the social‚ economic‚ and political activities of the continent. Unlike other colonists‚ English colonists created settlements in the new world and assimilated the natives into the English culture instead of learning their culture; additionally‚ they suppressed inferior
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reasons for European exploration. As Europes demand for Eastern goods grew Europeans began to search for new trading routes to reduce the expenses. Another reason for exploration was the arrival of Marco Polo. When he returned from China‚ he came back with stories of the East. In addition‚ each empire wanted to expand its empire and acquire colonies and gold in order to fulfill the imperialism principle‚ which stated that a strong empire must have the most bullion or silver. Moreover‚ Europeans also set
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British Colonizing in Nigeria In the late 19th and early 20th century‚ Europeans had raced to colonize the country Africa. Great Britain was the leaders at this time in colonizing the land filled with rich natural recourses. These recourses were considered a necessity to the industrialization of the world‚ specifically Nigeria. During this colonization that Great Britain was doing in their new land‚ you could imagine that the locals were not too happy about this. The British had no respect for
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described the economic issues and the rise of the different powers in Latin America. The Authors Bakewell and Escosura both wrote about the shifts in power from the Europeans to the independence of Latin America. Everything starting with the Bolivar movement‚ when Simon Bolivar wanted to free his country of the Spanish control in Venezuela. These movements showed that the Latin American people had enough of the European control in their land. They wanted to have their own freedom and power over their
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Jazmine peters 11-7-16 World history S1 Q4 Several factors contributed to Europeans take over of Africa. The biggest was that Europe had a technical advantage. And with them having technology that Africa didn’t have‚ Europeans also had Machine guns leaving Africa with there outdated weapons that where little to no use to them. Africa got a lot of there imperial ideas from European countries that had better technology then them all European countries had better technology than Africa because they
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European Settlement in Latin America Between 1450 and 1750 C.E.‚ Europeans entered Latin America and created new political structures‚ increased trade‚ and brought their religion. This happened because the Spanish conquered the Aztecs and Incas‚ while Portugal took over what is now Brazil. Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztecs while Francisco Pizzarro conquered the Incas. The Aztecs and Incas were two great Native American civilizations. In Latin America‚ slavery remained unchanged. These areas
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To be or not to be Motivated That is the Question Simmarie Nicole Carrillo University of phoenix Abstract “Tom I am so hungry‚ I could eat a horse! Me too!” replied his little brother Chris. What is the motivation behind the children’s remark? What is there incentive? It is simple hunger is there motivation‚ while food is the incentive. However‚ could it be more such as biological factors that correlates with the source of motivation? Have you ever thought about
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