Without the use of new technology and Henry the Navigator, the Europeans would not have been able to expand trade around the world. As the Europeans expanded trade around the world they had a surplus of supplies and were wealthy. Consequently, Europeans start to grow in population in their colonies. Henry the navigator helped the Europeans discover more land and made it easier to expand overseas. Europeans relied on the use of new technology and Henry the Navigator to expand trade around the world.
One way that helped the Europeans expand trade around the world was technology. The marine chronometer was an important piece of technology. The marine chronometer was like a clock and was used to find longitude which helped the Europeans navigate
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Henry the Navigator also known as Prince Henry was born on 1394. He was the third son of King John of Portugal. When Prince Henry was 21 years old, he was in charge of a military force that captured the Muslim outpost of Ceuta. This happened in 1415. Three years after the capture, Prince Henry founded his Sagres an institute which is on the southwestern point of Portugal and it is known as Cape Saint Vincent. The Institute had many libraries and an enormous observatory. The Institute was a place ancient geographer’s referred to as the western edge of the earth and was best described as a fifteenth century research and developing facility. Also there were ship building places and places for people working there to live. Most importantly there was a chapel in the Institute. The Institute was made to teach the activity of accurately ascertaining one's position and planning and following a route to Portuguese sailors. Also it was made to collect the spreading geographical data about the world. Spreading geographical statistics was important because it helped to improve navigational and ship equipment so the creators, so they could make money and it would help them spread Christianity worldwide. Also this helped in expanding European trade around the world. Prince Henry brought together some of the leading geographers, cartographers, astronomers, and mathematicians from all around Europe to work in his Institute. The Institute’s main goal was to make explorers able to explore west of Africa in order to find a way to Asia. A new type of ship was developed at Sagres called a Caravel. This ship was fast and was very easily moved unlike most past ships. Though the Caravel was pretty small, they were extremely useable. Nina and the Pinta were made by the famous ship maker Christopher Columbus. Henry the Navigator despite his
He had set on his fourth voyage with his son John, Robert, and his crew, they were aboard the ship “Discovery” they had set out to sea navigating into an inlet into northern Canada In July 1610 they sailed into Hudson Bay. He and his crew spent many months documenting, and mapping the coast line, they were unfortunate in finding a way west. After several months, winter had came and The Hudson Bay had filled with ice leaving them with no escape. The crew had no choice but to drop anchor, and stay until the bay cleared of ice.
In 1492, just as the Reconquista ended in Spain, Christopher Columbus left for Asia. Spain would later create one of the largest empires in history. Expelling Jews and muslims, Ferdinand and Isabella highly centralized the Catholic bureaucracy and founded a strongly Catholic Spain (Norton 16). Also, increased competition with Portugal motivated the Spanish to explore this new route to Asia. Influence from the current cultural events shaped the motives for Spanish exploration.
Although he never really accomplished what he what trying to do, Henry Hudson was still a very driven and persistent explorer. He was a leader to many other explorers, and he also helped inspire interest of America in Europe. In Hudson’s lifetime, he set out on four voyages. For three of these journeys he was partnered with England, and for the other, with the Netherlands. Henry Hudson is a great example of an explorer who kept trying even with adversity.
The Impact of the New World in Global Trade People all over the world were affected by the global trade that was opened with the exploration of the new world. Between 1300-1800 CE people began to open trade routes that allowed people to trade all over the world. This allowed for new ideas and technologies to access parts of the world that they never had before. Now that there was an extreme increase in trade, a new merchant class arose in Europe. Trade was an important force for change leading to the desire for new resources and goods; drove exploration; and impacted societies and relationships between civilizations around the world.
The Netherlands and the Dutch East India Company wanted Hudson to explore the Northeast passage. When Hudson came back with no finding of the Northeast passage, the Netherland and the Dutch East India Company lost faith. Wealthy English merchants thought he could find it if he got a second chance so, they paid for another trip to find the Northeast passage. The Muscovy company gave him order of a ship named the Hopewell, which is the ship that Hudson and his eleven crew members including his son, John, went on for their first voyage in 1607. On his second voyage in 1608, Hudson used the Hopewell again.
Some states thrived under the trade, while others economically deteriorated so drastically that they continue to suffer today. Despite the consequences, the trade connected the world closer than ever before. A main reason why Europeans colonized the New World with such swiftness and determination lay in the drinks of nobles and the soil of peasants. Sugar was in high demand during the 1500s and 1600s, and the fertile coasts of the Carribean and Brazil made for a perfect environment. Sugar cane was just the tip of the iceberg: Europeans soon discovered crops native to the Americas that heavily impacted world economy, a prime example being the potato.
Lynda Shaffer has a theory called Southernization. Southernization is the theory that the non-West is enhanced by the ideas of the West through interaction and trade. Chinese inventions such as printing, gunpowder and the compass fundamentally changed Europe. The biggest result of the spread of ideas was the end of the Feudal System. Printing was introduced to Europe circa 13th century CE.
Henry the Navigator dreamed of gaining new people to convert to Christianity in lands unexplored by Europeans. In 1415 he payed for and planned expeditions from Lisbon that sailed further and further down the western coast of Africa. In 1444 Hennery and his men Arrived to what is now Mauritania and began carrying slaves back to Lisbon for conversion and sale.
For instance, the map shows in Document 1 that England had a myriad of Major canals and railroads. These ways of transportation allowed England to trade with other countries so they could have more resources and money to help them develop new inventions. The empire also helped the Industrial
Henry was a 15th century Prince, soldier, and explorer. He passed away on
Technology was a massive impact on European imperialism because unlike the Africans who had bows and spears. The Europeans have already developed the first machine gun. The mechanism of the Maxim gun employed one of the earliest recoil operated firing systems in history. The electric telegraph was also a big factor to European
Christopher Columbus was an explorer and navigator born in 1451 in Genoa, Italy. When Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in 1492, he hoped to reach eastern Asia. He thought he had reached Asia when he landed on an island in the Caribbean Sea. In fact he had opened up to Europeans a new world with two continents—North America and South America—and many islands.
The economic changes, during the Age of Exploration, had a lot to do with trade. A multitude of countries traded amongst each other for items, such as luxury goods or spices, in exchange for items they had surpluses of. America, Europe, and Africa, all traded with each other, as well as other countries. This process was known as the Triangular Trade.
European imperialism played a significant role of the evolution of transportation, military, and communication technologies. Since the Industrial Revolution occurred before the age of imperialism, the production of weapons and tools became more efficient and quicker. Thus, inventing the
Why did the Europeans explore so prolifically between the 14-16 centuries? The ‘Age of Exploration’ is the period between the 14th-16th century. It is known for the European exploration into other parts of the world. The Age of Exploration is the period when European countries ventured into unknown territories to find spice routes, to set up trade routes with the East, to find new wealth in the form of gold and silver, and to spread Christianity.