The+Age+of+Exploration

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The Age of Exploration ** . **Developed better ships and mastered the use of the axial rudder from the Chinese. The ships could carry more goods and sail against the wind. Sailors could use the astrolabe and they learned the wind patterns of the Atlantic Ocean. ** Explorers: ** Henry the Navigator: Portuguese explorer who ventured to Africa to find gold and spread Christianity. Went to Cape Verde and brought back African slaves. Vasco Da Gama: Portuguese explorer who crossed the Arabian Sea, eventually found spices in Calicut. Established Portuguese monopoly in Spice trade, also expanded control to Malacca. From there the Portuguese expanded to China and the Spice Islands. Conquered with guns and seamanship. Christopher Columbus: Found America. Spanish explorer attempted to find India, but landed in America and converted the natives to Christianity. John Cabot: Went to the coast of New England in the name of King Henry VII. Amerigo Vespucci: named America. Ferdinand Magellan: First man to circumnagivate the world. ** The Spanish Empire in the New World:  ** ** . **Hernan Cortes, landed in Veracruz in the Gulf of Mexico, marched into the Aztec capital of Tenochitlan with conquistadors and enslaved the Aztecs. The Aztecs were not able to fight off the diseases of the Spanish. .Francisco Pizzaro landed in the Inca Empire off the coast of South America. The Incans who had already been wiped out by smallpox captured the Inca capital. ** Administration of the Spanish Empire: ** ** Encomienda: a system that allowed Spanish conquerors to take tribute from the natives and use htme as laborers. In return, the Spanish must protect the natives. ** ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> .This was not done properly, as the Spanish brutally treated the natives. ** <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. The Spanish used a system of viceroys that divided possessions between Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. The Cardinals in Spain were given ecclesiastical rights in the New World.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Motives: **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gold, God and Glory!!! **