famous exploit was his voyage in 1492‚ which may have opened the way for Europeans to discover the Americas. Turning into the first non-European discovery of America now—led by the genuine help of the Norse expeditions led by Leif Erikson in the tenth century—Costa’s voyages commanded a search beneath a splendid generation‚ namely‚ colonialism‚ and in the long run‚ the dominance of European powers over the New World. His transatlantic voyages‚ beginning with the famous voyage with the real treasures
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Portuguese and Spanish were rivals in exploration. They were always competing with each other over who was better. Spanish exploration was more effective than Portuguese exploration because the Spanish went to land unexplored‚ colonised and made more voyages than the Portuguese. Trade was a necessity for early kingdoms after the Middle Ages. People‚ especially kings and monarchs wanted new trade routes for more wealth. Spain’s motivation for trade was to explore unknown land to find gold(Frey 333).
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Christopher Columbus left Spain to search for China and to spread the religion‚ but instead‚ discovered the New World. His voyage was captured in a journal that was written by himself. Columbus helped King Fernandes and Queen Isabella of Spain to bring wealth and fame. He was said to be a trustworthy person to the King and Queen of Spain. He was considered to be a hero. His first voyage
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vessels led by a kinsman of Drake‚ the English navigator Sir John Hawkins‚ on a slave-trading voyage in the Gulf of Mexico. All but two ships of the expedition were lost when attacked by a Spanish squadron. In 1570 and 1571 Drake made two profitable trading voyages to the West Indies. In 1572 he commanded two vessels in a marauding expedition against Spanish ports in the Caribbean Sea. During this voyage‚ Drake first saw the Pacific Ocean; he captured the port of Nombre de Dios on the Isthmus of Panama
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of the two chiefs within the island of Mactan‚ was the only chieftain to show his opposition. Lapu-Lapu refused to accept the authority of Rajah Humabon in these matters. This opposition proved to be influential when Antonio Pigafetta‚ Magellan’s voyage chronicler‚ writes‚ On Friday‚ April twenty-six‚ Zula‚ the second chief of the island of Mactan‚ sent one of his sons to present two goats to the captain-general‚ and to say that he would send him all that he had promised‚ but that he had not been
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that operates expedition-style voyages mainly to Polar Regions. EAI also offered voyages between season to the islands of the South Pacific and the Atlantic also covering the Amazon River. The company decided to offer these additional excursions to assist in defraying fixed business cost (Shaw & Hulland‚ 1999). EAI first began excursions through the Amazon River Basin during the high water season of March 1997. There were two options; option one was the upriver voyage from Belem‚ Brazil to the town
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great dynasty. It helps us to see how China rose to become a great maritime power and also how it its navy disintegrated. “When China Ruled the Seas” shows us why the Chinese emperors decided to destroy its navy. It helps us learn more about China’s voyages of exploration‚ including how long they lasted‚ the reason for them‚ how far they extended and the impact they had on China itself and foreign countries. This book provides great details that we are not able to see in the book or in class. It gives
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Gulliver’s voyages? After reading Gulliver’s Travels you see the details up close‚ and you see them from far away. The book shows you how meaningless some wars are‚ for example between the Lilliput and Blefuscu. There is no real huge conflict between the two and Swift implies this in different way. Gulliver also meets the Brobdingnagians‚ where the king shows Gulliver that the people of Europe are narrow minded and way underdeveloped than the Brobdingnagians. For Gullivers fourth voyage he ends up
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10End of Treasure Fleet Voyage * The seven voyages of the Treasure Fleet were meant to display Chinese might to all the kingdoms and trade ports of the Indian Ocean world‚ and to bring back exotic toys and novelties for the emperor. * The Yongle Emperor who sponsored Zheng He’s first six voyages died in 1424. His son‚ the Hongle Emperor‚ was much more conservative and Confucianist in his thought‚ so he ordered the voyages stopped. (There was one last voyage under Yongle’s grandson‚ Xuande
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Captain James Cook‚ FRS‚ RN (7 November 1728[NB 1] – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer‚ navigator‚ cartographer‚ and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean‚ during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands‚ and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy
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